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William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited An oil portrait of Shakespeare shown from the chest up against a deep red-brown background. He has a high, balding forehead with hair at the sides, a short beard and moustache, and dark eyes with a calm, direct gaze. He wears a black doublet with a plain white falling collar tied with a lace string, and a small gold hoop earring in his left ear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#/media/File:William_Shakespeare_by_John_Taylor,_edited.jpg
Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years
An author is relaunching a ladies club that once revived William Shakespeare's reputation 300 years ago.
by Alice Cunningham
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"Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist, circa 1907. Photograph shows a half-length portrait of a woman with tatooes or body paint covering her arms and chest." - Wikimedia Commons
The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, Americaโs First Female Tattoo Artist
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One page of Archimedes Palimpsest, On Floating Bodies A photograph of two worn parchment pages showing a palimpsest โ older text and diagrams visible beneath and alongside later overwriting. The pages are divided into columns of small Greek minuscule script, heavily faded and stained, with foxing and discolouration across the surface. On the right side of each page, geometric diagrams are visible โ lines, angles, and labelled points โ consistent with mathematical proofs. The parchment is damaged and warped, with the underlying and overlying texts creating a ghostly layered effect in brownish-grey tones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#/media/File:ArPalimTyp2.jpg
Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France
via @InistCNRS@social.numerique.gouv.fr
edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan
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Woman teaching geometry. Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements, c.โ1310. A richly illuminated manuscript initial, painted in blue, pink, red, and burnished gold. Within the decorated letter a seated woman in a red tunic and purple skirt holds a pair of compasses over a circular board or diagram displaying geometric figures โ squares, triangles, and a trefoil. A group of male students crowds in from the left, their pale faces attentive, one leaning forward with his hand raised to his cheek. The gold background is tooled with a diagonal crosshatch pattern. The border of the initial is pink with white vine scrollwork against deep blue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry#/media/File:Woman_teaching_geometry.jpg
These Intricately Decorated Ostrich Eggshells Suggest Our Ancestors May Have Understood Basic Geometry 60,000 Years Ago
by Sarah Kuta
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Original article here:
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Geometry at PG:
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North and South is available here: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4276 and Ruth as well www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4275
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"Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V.Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning" - wikipedia
#OTD in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born.
"Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist."
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Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond. A chalk portrait drawing of a Gaskell, shown from the chest up against a plain light background. She has dark hair parted centrally and drawn back smoothly, with loose strands falling at the sides. Her features are delicate and her expression gentle and slightly smiling. She wears a light dress with a dark brooch or bow at the neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell#/media/File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontรซ Fans Will Love
The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.
By Amy Glover
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"The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose."
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire (ed. 1789)
~Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737 โ 16 January 1794)
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Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737โ1794) An oil portrait of a heavyset middle-aged man shown from the chest up against a dark background. He wears a bright red coat with large gold buttons over a waistcoat, with a white ruffled lace cravat at the neck. His grey powdered wig has a long queue tied with a black ribbon falling over his shoulder. He faces slightly left with a composed, somewhat self-satisfied expression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#/media/File:Edward_Emily_Gibbon.jpg
The Chronicler of Decline
Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbonโs epic history of Romeโs collapse?
by Ed Simon
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Lillian Sholes demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes, 1872
Typing for Love or Money
The Hidden Womenโs Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
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"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:
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The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c.โ1405โ1410. A illuminated manuscript page with dense Gothic cursive text in two sections, separated by a decorative rubric line in red. The left and bottom margins are bordered by an elaborate acanthus and ivy-leaf vine decoration in blue, gold, and red, with small coloured flowers and curling tendrils. A small miniature illustration in the right margin depicts a figure in a wide-brimmed hat riding a horse, rendered in warm reds, blues, and browns. A large decorative initial capital begins the lower text block. The rubric midpage reads "Heere endeth the Wyf of Bathe hir prologe and biginneth hir tale." The page is cream-coloured with age, and a folio number is visible in the upper right corner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#/media/File:Wife-of-Bath-ms.jpg
Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Womenโs Day
by Amy Wilcockson
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Women fiction at PG:
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![Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.
A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.
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Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips. A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi. A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/pmfug8sg
A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne โ English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:
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The Short But Magical Life of John Keats
Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.
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The frontispiece engraving from Vernรผnfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen (first published in 1720) by Christian Wolff. The sun bursts out from clouds beneath the banner Lucem post nubila reddit (After a cloudy time He brings back the light). https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONMAAAAAcAAJ/page/n4/mode/1up
Vernuฬnfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen uฬberhaupt by Wolff, Christian von A title page from an 18th-century German printed book, set in ornate blackletter (Fraktur) type in alternating black and red. The large decorative red letters spell Gott in elaborate calligraphic display type. The full title reads Vernรผnfftige Gedancken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, Auch allen Dingen รผberhaupt ("Rational Thoughts on God, the World, and the Soul of Man, and All Things in General"), by Christian Freyherrn von Wolff, with his extensive academic titles listed below. Published in Halle im Magdeburgischen, 1752, sold at the Rengerischen Buchhandl. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONMAAAAAcAAJ/page/n5/mode/1up
The great, forgotten Wolff
Written for laymen, read by women and kings, Christian Wolffโs mathematical method made him a key Enlightenment philosopher
by Michael Walschots
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Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter Marie Luplau's large group portrait painting From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage (1897). An oil painting depicting a large indoor gathering of men and women in late 19th-century dress. A central standing figure โ an older woman in a long dark dress with a white lace collar โ commands attention, appearing to address or preside over the assembled group. To her left sits a younger woman at a table with papers and a glass vessel. The crowd behind and around them is densely arranged, faces rendered individually. The setting appears to be a meeting hall with gas lamps visible on the wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#/media/File:Marie_Luplau_-_Fra_Kvindevalgretskampens_f%C3%B8rste_dage_(1897),.jpg
Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years
by Roberta Garrett
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Dorothy B. Porter is standing in front of window.
8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Womenโs Day
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Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG:
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Title page of the book Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1 by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin A title page from a small 18th-century printed book on cream paper, text centred in varying type sizes: Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Below a ruled line: Dublin: Printed by Thomas Burnside, for J. Rice, 111, Grafton-Street. 1798. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67847/pg67847-images.html
What Oral Histories Reveal About Womenโs Pursuit of Economic Independence
by Rachel F. Seidman
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The Raven at PG:
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Le Corbeau = The Raven Author: Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator: รdouard Manet Translator: Stรฉphane Mallarmรฉ A dark silhouetted figure stands at an open window or door, face in profile, looking outward with an expression of alarm or awe. A large black bird โ a raven โ flies in through the opening from a stormy, sketchy exterior landscape with indistinct forms suggesting rooftops or gravestones. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14082/pg14082-images.html
Edgar Allan Poeโs Mechanical Imagination
Behind The Ravenโs melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.
By: Danny Robb
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Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, 1633 by Rembrandt. A dark Baroque oil painting dominated by deep browns and blacks, with a single luminous figure at centre-left. An elderly bearded man in magnificent gold-embroidered priestly robes and a jewelled veil or mitre stands reading from an open book on a lectern, his bare feet visible beneath his vestments. A shaft of pale light descends from the upper right into the surrounding darkness. To the right, a richly draped table holds a golden ewer and a staff. Heavy red drapery fills the left background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_Zacharias_in_the_Temple#/media/File:Rembrandt_-_Zacharius-vis-high-res-sRGB.jpg
Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
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Thompson, John Hunter; Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855); Bronte Parsonage Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/charlotte-bronte-18161855-21013
#OTD in 1839, Charlotte Bronte declines Reverend Henry Nusseyโs marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her โromantic and eccentricโ and not practical enough to be a clergymanโs wife.
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