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I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one is pretty splendid, don’t you think?

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@UPS package posted in Vancouver 9/9, guaranteed 2 day delivery to Halifax and STILL waiting 12/9. Tracking claims unable to deliver, but no notice left and I was waiting by the window. Really frustrated!

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@owilliamsdc Illustration is much later, but early modern physicians rely on a similar contraption

If there are any early modernists left on this platform: please, I need to know what a “sweating cradle” - a “cradle to sweat in” is! Treatment for syphilis perhaps? Appears in an inventory of Anne Southwell’s household goods.

@owilliamsdc Good idea, but I think I’ve tracked it down as this supportive frame (cradle) which, when attached to a heat source and tightly covered with bedclothes, allowed the thus enclosed person to sweat out excess humours (such as melancholy).

@paul_salzman Yes, exactly- but make no assumptions, say I. In one poem she writes: “Nature, mistress of affection/Gave my love to thy protection/Where it hath received infection/ and is dying.” Never took this literally, but …

@speght Definitely references in restoration drama to a sweating tub as a syphilis cure but seems perhaps a tiny bit unlikely for Southwell or am I underestimating her …shall we say, range.

@JuliaMWrightDal Fantastic! Thank you! Now curious about the medical purpose of the sweating?

@rhetorician Ugh. Sorry 😢

Travelling to London to see declining mother with a broken toe and antibiotics that are making me feel rough. 100% do not recommend

@rhetorician O no! I’m so sorry- and my sprained right foot throbs in sympathy!

Dropped a metal door on my foot; broken toe, 5 stitches, tetanus and antibiotics. Wonderful and inclusive care from the advanced nurse practitioner at the rapid injury clinic. If only all healthcare was like this!

@rhetorician @SAAupdates “All married men desire to have good wives/ But few give good example by their lives.” She was also acutely conscious of the position of all early modern women in relation to men.

@rhetorician @SAAupdates “Dare you but write, you are Minerva’s bird, / The owl at which these bats and crows must wonder. / They’ll criticize upon the smallest word /That wanteth number, case, that tense and gender.” Southwell was acutely conscious of her own position as a writing woman.

Delighted to announce our @SAAupdates #shax2025 seminar on the work of Lady Anne Southwell in Boston. Please contact me or @speght for more information. Papers on law, land, medicine, birds, scripture, providence, science, poetics all these and more very welcome!

@rhetorician @SAAupdates “Raise up thy faculties, my soul, ‘tis time/ To wake from idleness the child of death!” If you know Southwell, you will want to heed her call; if you don’t, a few teasers will convince you that you should!

@rhetorician @paul_salzman Though something a bit creepy in her comparison of her own children to decadent courtiers. . .

@paul_salzman There’s something very moving about her moaning about the kids stopping her writing

How to gloss - or even modernise the word “hoobubles”? The full lines read “thus hurried yet I send/these forced lines in all your HOOBUBLES penned” (st.23)

@woolf_atthedoor She’s in California (Santa Barbara). Them’s pricey stakes. 😳

@woolf_atthedoor That’s lovely. Whereas my kid #2 has just moved to Edmonton! So now we have both kids in the west . . .

@rhetorician Just grand! Happy anniversary! ❤️

Me and the missus 28 years on, two kids, house moves, aging parents, bereavements, pretty much all the challenges! But lots of good fortune and luck too #LesbianVisibilityWeek

@DrPeteKirwan @MaryBaldwinU Fantastic news! Congratulations!

@BotanicalShax No, sorry. Perhaps she should be?

@speght Can I ask if Penelope Rich is included in the book?

I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one is pretty splendid, don’t you think?

@rhetorician Hilarious. You did! Thank you - not only for endorsing it but (more importantly) for “getting” what it tries to do!

Was about to say I can vouch for this fascinating book and then realised I already did 😂