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From the Archive: A monastery, a saint, a book thief, and a secret map.
And you thought you were a bibliophile.
Sep 8 • Katy
13

Hodgepodge: Personal Curriculum
You can take the girl out of academia, but apparently you can't take the...oh, you get it.
Aug 22 • Katy
62
11
We dared to build Gods: Worldbuilding
Fantasy worlds, nerding out, and paracosms.
Aug 7 • Katy
15
From the Archive: Letters Between Sisters: the Mitford Girls and the Art of Correspondence
In which I finally come clean about my rather worrying obsession with a complicated family of British aristocrats.
Jun 25 • Katy
18
5
Web of Childhood: Notes on juvenilia, from the Brontës to girls on the early internet.
Miniature books, collaboration, html theft, subaltern counterpublics, and girlhood.
Jun 10 • Katy
40
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Every feeling waits upon its gesture.
Here are some things and a list of other things.
May 21 • Katy
15
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Personal Archive Update
Checking in on how this whole personal archiving journey has been going, and a lot more detail at the end for paid subscribers.
May 2 • Katy
44
Hodgepodge & a little free library.
Giving away the written word to escape the daily horrors.
Apr 16 • Katy
16
2
Pretty trinkets in a lady's pocket.
A woman's hiding place, and creating to beat back the horrors.
Mar 24 • Katy
34
4
Hodgepodge & From the Archive: Dustsceawung and faeries: In the shadow of ruins.
This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it / courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Feb 28 • Katy
7
For the love of books & personal libraries.
I never needed an excuse to collect books.
Feb 15 • Katy
42
From the Archive: Comrade-woman, maker of songs.
St. Brigid's Day
Feb 1 • Katy
21
5
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