As with last year, my blogging has all been at the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers My contributions to the Books and Borrowing blog for 2021 can be found here: Seeking the Sublime: Elizabeth Montagu in Scotland, August 1766 A Painted Literary Parthenon for the Athens of the North A…
Normally, I don’t keep a journal during my travels, but I made a compromise last year. For years now, I have been starting each day with a ‘Morning Pages’ session. This is a practice that is meant to make me a proper writer. The idea is that I’m to get up each day and, before…
At the finish of my latest time-limited job, I decided not to seek full-time work – unless something came up that I really wanted to do. I was lucky to have some part-time work lined up and some freelancing and my husband agreed that we’d manage. I’m lucky in that: it has not always been…
