is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Outreach Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University and former Project Cataloger at the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library. After stumbling across Frances Wolfreston’s copy of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (1621) at Illinois State University in 2013, she has been working to further reconstruct the life and library of this remarkable early woman reader. Any information about Frances Wolfreston or her books is highly welcome, and can be sent to Lindenbaum at slindenb@iwu.edu. You can follow her on Twitter as @wolfrestonward.
Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed
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A guest post by Sarah Lindenbaum “And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.3.87–88) Recently, two Shakespeare quartos held by the Folger Shakespeare Library were determined to…
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