Coined by Shakespeare?
I'm very excited to talk about Shakespeare, digital humanities, and literary "myths" in today's Boston Globe!
August 2013
A London season
Yesterday I had one of those amazing, serendipitous archival experiences that researchers romanticize (with good reason). As I was searching Britain's National Archives database for correspondence to and from Charles Hanbury Williams—an eighteenth-century diplomat whose letters I read at the Lewis Walpole Library last year—I found this entry: "An 'engagement' diary. Of a member of the Capell family (probably Frances, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams): the very concise entries...