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For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @MeganPeiser and @the_embrarian about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): https://t.co/uAPUXP9ZYO

And the anonymously authored The Happy Family; or, Winter Evenings' Employment. Consisting of Reading and Conversations, in seven parts, which features passages by Hannah More: https://t.co/LBmfoljyCP.

The pseudonymous Rachel Revel’s Winter Evening Pastimes; or, the Merry-Makers Companion which claims to promote “harmless mirth and innocent amusement:” https://t.co/kQ8K1Rnppi;

Some highlights include Isabella Jane Towers’s The Children's Fire-side: Being a Series of Tales for Winter Evenings: https://t.co/C2BgrMv362;

Happy December WPHP friends! Are you hosting a holiday gathering this year and looking for some entertainment? Search “winter evening” in our Titles search for some 19th century inspiration: https://t.co/smKNgloESp.

Check out the series here: https://t.co/qvRS8nkj2S.

This series includes spotlights on early 18th century printer Anne Dodd, the rivalries of the women in the Farley family, Scottish Royal Printer Agnes Campbell, American printer Jane Aitkin, and obscured London bookseller and printer Ann Vernor.

As we continue to verify over 1500 firms on our Firms to Final Check list, you can revisit our Down the Rabbit Hole: Researching Women in the Book Trades Spotlight Series to learn about some of the extensive research we undertake to determine if a firm is woman-run.

You can check out the title record for Elijah’s Mantle: or, the memoirs and spiritual exercises of Marion Shaw here: https://t.co/9HDDk7T4RR.

The WPHP tracks the works of prolific and canonical women authors of the long eighteenth century, but we also seek to highlight women like Shaw, whose efforts and contribution to print have been overshadowed by time and an abundance of data.

Shaw did not make a career out of writing, in fact, she did not learn how to write until the age of 58, but faced with the inevitability of her own death, she was inspired to learn and write this memoir to leave behind her spiritual learnings and advice to her friends and family.

On November 5th, 1764, Marion Shaw passed away at the age of 64, leaving behind her sole title Elijah’s Mantle: or, the memoirs and spiritual exercises of Marion Shaw.

Happy Halloween! This year we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya. It’s Kandice’s favourite time of the year, so she sat down with WPHP collaborator Kate Ozment to talk about this demonic, orientalist bloodbath of a novel: https://t.co/2pcuPHbpFe

Swapping witch hunting for ghost hunting in Season Three, Kate and Kandice read Mary Tuck’s Durston Castle; or, The Ghost of Eleonora (1804), reflecting on the eighteenth-century practice of reading aloud and the practicalities of sleeping in chainmail: https://t.co/VXapgxyhlw.

Season Two took Kate and Kandice on a witch hunt through the database to find only five titles that mention witches. Though there were only a few, our hosts encountered all manner of witches, from the silly to the eerie:

In Season One, Kate and Kandice read WPHP favourite, Elisabeth Guénard’s The Three Monks!! (1803), and Catherine Cuthbertson’s Romance of the Pyrenees (1803), novels rife with gothic tropes like abducted women, banditti, and dark family secrets: https://t.co/mSTyneTEXK.

To help you savour the last few days of October (and get you ready for another special Halloween episode coming this week!), listen again to our previous WPHP Monthly Mercury Halloween episodes.

Saving the most terrifying for last, read about some of the real horrors of the eighteenth century, the legal and social persecution of women, in Mary Wollstencraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. A Fragment here: https://t.co/ZsAqsNhjJq.

Or read about Ann Lemoine’s The Haunted Castle and how Lemoine used the various connotations of “gothic” to her advantage: https://t.co/tHSyKekIEU.