Rylands Reflects: From Matanzas to Manchester
Content warning: This post discusses family connections to slavery and the plantation economy in 19th-century Cuba. These histories reflect theContinue Reading
Author: Elizabeth Gow
Rylands Reflects: Returning to the Reunion Deseada
Content warning: This post includes depictions of enslaved people and the conditions in which they lived. The images reflect attitudesContinue Reading
An Undiscoverable Secret? The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the final blog post of this series, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals how Thomas J. Wise’s pirating of RobertContinue Reading
The Dead Tell No Tales: The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the second of three posts, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals the impact of Thomas J. Wise’s forgeries on theContinue Reading
“The Moriarty of the Book World”: Thomas J. Wise at The John Rylands Library
PhD student Ellesse Patterson reflects on the relationship between The John Rylands Library and one of Britain’s most notorious literaryContinue Reading
‘Take no distaste of my words, though they be a woman’s writing’
Guest author Dr. Naomi Baker discusses Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative (1636-7), one of the earliest known English conversion narratives, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War
Three Near-Identical Voltaire Letters
Guest authors Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Gillian Pink investigate a curious coincidence surrounding three near-identical letters by French philosopher Voltaire
Rylands Reflects: Enriqueta Rylands’s first home
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading