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Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

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I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was

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Image: Jim Crace’s handwritten note on the “Archipelago” folder in his archive.

When I came to the Harry Ransom Center in August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was

Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

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I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland. [Read more…] about Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

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It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.” [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

Fellows Find: Smile (or pout!): Photographs of London’s professional primpers

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Before Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929) became a stage actress, she was known as one of London’s “professional beauties.” [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Smile (or pout!): Photographs of London’s professional primpers