Deidre Lynch
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
Website: https://deidrelynch.org
- Happy 🎂, _Mrs Dalloway_. Here's part of Richard Hughes' lovely 1925 review: "to the reader, London is made, for the first time (this will probably surprise him) to exist. It emerges, shining like crystal, out of the fog in which all the merely material universe is ordinarily enveloped in his mind".
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- You are correct! It's a great cover, isn't it?
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- We are kindred spirits!
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- I too love that concept of @saranahmed.bsky.social 's. My favourite Woolf for sure, my own "companion text," though I also have a real soft spot for Orlando.
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- No, you're teaching me another new thing. That would be amazing to read! Thank you again!
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- I had no idea. I am very sorry to hear that about Bradshaw (I too have benefited from those editions)--but am thrilled to learn from you about the Mendelson editions. Thank you for sharing!
- I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- Fabulous review!
- Oh FFS
- the EEOC accusing Harvard of discriminating against white men b/c the % of tenured white men dropped from 64 in 2013 to 56 in 2023 and % of TT dropped from 46 to 32 I am 💀 www.chronicle.com/article/facu...
- But in fact at my institution the percentage of tenured professors who are female is now, as of 2025, 30%, and, believe me, I feel that every day. (This is b/c far more women than men chose to take advantage of retirement incentives during our Covid crisis. Which tells you something about workload.)
- Slight correction: the figure is not for my institution but for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (it doesn't take in the professional schools, in other words).
- The Bodley Librarian's take on the current disastrous attack on knowledge in the U.S. The concluding quote from Jefferson reminded me of Churchill in 1938: "the stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out." The darkness is that much murkier b/c of Hayden's firing.
- My thoughts on the disgraceful removal of Dr Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress (and the Archivist of the United States too). LC and NARA are part if the infrastructure of democracy in America, and are under attack. on.ft.com/4mdynBU The US Library of Congress is under attack
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- Congratulations on MULTIPLE counts, Saul!
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- Oh no, you are right! they have closed, & so has Bicyclette, my favourite little French cafe on Harbord. I do stand, though, by my sense that Harbord is a great street to explore--walk west from U. of T. along Harbord and then south to Ossington & Queen, for a great (long) walk thru my neighborhood.
- Here's Emmer www.emmertoronto.ca
- Here's Casa Paco: www.casapaco.ca
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- They are!
- Near U. of Toronto, St. George campus, by any chance? I'd say that for food in the immediate neighborhood of campus you should look at Harbord rather than College Str (go a mile w on College & it's a different story): Emmer (a bakery); Cafe Bicyclette. College & Cinton: Casa Paco: DELISH! Have FUN!
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- And look at the wonderful company that I'm keeping! Really grateful to the editorial board and Diana Wise, copy-editor extraordinaire!
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- OOH! I didn't know it had appeared in the world. Thank you, Michael!
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- My birthplace!
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- I will DM you, since I don't want to give the plot away to Joe!
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- The novelist Laura van den Berg has often thought about the intersections of writing and fighting (boxing, specifically) and has a newsletter tracking them: fightweek.substack.com
- So, to return to a conversation you and I had last month, I have almost convinced myself that in this episode Brontë is referencing an episode in The Woman of Colour! Maybe improbable on book history grounds , but … I look forward to seeing what you think!
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- Never thought when I studied Brit hist that the anti-democratic repressions of the 1790s would be so topical for 21stc US life. But, having remembered that pm William Pitt suspended habeas corpus in 1794, let's notice how much Miller resembles him, esp when Pitt is drawn (by J Gillray) as a fungus.
- I also cannot help (as an outlet for my rage) sharing with you all Gillray's title for this cartoon, which is "An Execrescence, a Fungus, alias a Toadstool upon a Dunghill."
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- This is LOVELY: congratulations, Mary, on a job well done. For me, too, teaching has been a much needed respite. 1 of the worst things about the last few months has been the malicious lies told (by the Secretary of Education for a start, but also wealthy alums) about our curious, earnest students.
- I feel seen!
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- Further confirmation, accordingly, of the reasons that the heroine of Austen's Northanger Abbey gives for not liking History: History, she says, is "The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."
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- ❤️ this #BQT Alejo Carpentier, _Explosion in a Cathedral_ Maryse Condé, _Windward Heights_/ _La Migration des coeurs_ M. NourbeSe Philip, _Zong!_ Jamaica Kincaid, _A Small Place_ V S Naipaul, _The Enigma of Arrival_ Derek Walcott, _Omeros_ David Dabydeen, _Hogarth's Blacks_ (& now I'm out of space)
- Wordsworth himself wrote, "it was the Author's principal wish to furnish a ... Companion for the Minds of Persons of taste ... who might be inclined to explore the District ... with that degree of attention to which its beauty may fairly lay claim." I don't think Minecraft is what he had in mind.
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- Oh, the horrors of UK universities' "human resources" offices & their automatic (& tin-eared) e-mail replies. The response to a msg I just sent involving an actual *scholar* who is coming up promotion boasted about the office's new app. It is called [so I was told] "Wisdom: Learn, Grow, Thrive." 🤯
- Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?
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- Woke up not realizing I needed to see Black folks roll up at King Richard’s Faire (or whatever medieval reenactment place this is) in period dress. Hilarious! But we were there. #BlackSky via @thenerdsofcolor.bsky.social thenerdsofcolor.org/2016/02/11/g...
- I am sure you know the YouTube series Black Girl in a Big Dress, in which the heroine cosplays aristocratic country house life and courtship in Victorian England. Never fails to make me smile!
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- Ca. 2014, a reporter for the TO Star, musing on why none of the top graduates of TO high schools wanted to study the humanities, thought their choices were explained by the fact that they could get PERFECT grades in their science/math classes but fell short of perfection in their humanities classes
- That does seem to be where we're headed? I'm genuinely surprised by today's SC action and not sure what it portends. Remember that during the 1990s "gays in the military" was unpopular too.
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- I taught my last class of the AY on Thursday, & last night I had a teaching nightmare about NEXT semester (about my unreadiness, the students' restiveness, & the fact that for some reason my assigned classroom formed part of a network of caves on a volcanic tropical island . .. ). SO UNFAIR!
- "a network of caves on a volcanic tropical island" makes sense
- AS though my institution were hiding from the republican regime--like banditti or pirates (I have been reading Walter Scott, so there was indeed a certain logic to this dimension of the nightmare).
- Las month, building up to the 80th anniversary of VE day, the 🇨🇦 War Museum in Normandy sent postcards to addresses that had once been associated w/ the war dead--w/ the 🇨🇦 homes they left on heading to the front. I love postcards & am enchanted by this use of the media form www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Come on, colleagues--let's support the MLA in their lawsuit over DOGE's illegal, illegitimate dismantling of the NEA and NEH--and help them out with the legal costs.
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- Thank you!
- Do you have another link you might share? I'm getting a "you are not authorized to access" message when I click. Thanks! (The topic is dear to my heart!)
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- For reasons (some not so good), I am now back in Toronto for the summer. It was a rush to get myself here right after the term's end, but it feels very good to be reunited with Mr. Bean (who is dining in the foreground of the photo), not to mention with Mr. Bean's personal chef (in the background).
- So glad that this wonderful news is now public. #BookHistory friends, Dr. Yingst's scholarship on #18thc and #19thc print culture and gender transition will rock your world.
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- It's cold in Ottawa in the winter!
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- I remember P M Tim Horton too! (We might both be dating ourselves.)
