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Image of book cover for "The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland". Cover features text over an 18th-century painting

New Publication: “The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland,” by Ruth Perry

July 1, 2025August 26, 2025
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ASECS member Ruth Perry has published The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland. Twelve sung ballads were recorded to go with the book and they can be heard on a companion website for the book, by obtaining the CD, or by streaming from any of the major websites. it was published by Oxford University Press this summer. Click here to go to the publisher’s page for more information. Order online with promotion code AAFLYG6 to save 30%! Ruth Perry is a past President of ASECS. After teaching at MIT for 50 years,… Read More »New Publication: “The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland,” by Ruth Perry

Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award

May 7, 2025May 14, 2025
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ASECS Member Crystal B. Lake has been awarded an ACLS Project Development Grant. Her project, “Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century,” recovers the surprising range of crafts, customized commodities, and designed environments that early readers created between 1650 and 1850 that directly reference published poems, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction. These “literary objects” include needlepoint samplers stitched with lines from popular poems, board games inspired by bestsellers, waxwork renditions of fictional characters, magic lantern show based on trending plots, pinprick portraits of favorite authors, and much more. “Reading/Making” documents these objects systematically… Read More »Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award