The WPHP Monthly Mercury

The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast of The Women's Print History Project, a digital bibliographical database that recovers and discovers women’s print history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries (womensprinthistoryproject.com). Inspired by the titles of periodicals of the period, the WPHP Monthly Mercury dives into the gritty and gorgeous details of investigating women’s work as authors and labourers in the book trades.

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Episodes (40)

Aug 13, 2025 Finding, Building, Sustaining, Supporting, feat. Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, and Maureen Bell
Feb 19, 2025 A Newcastle Novelist, feat. Tricia Monsour
Dec 11, 2024 Bibliographic Intimacies, feat. Megan Peiser and Emily D. Spunaugle

The WPHP Monthly Mercury

Aug 13, 2025
1½ hours
42 MB

During ten years of working on the Women’s Print History Project, we have thought seriously and often about “women’s book history.” What is it, and how do we define it in relation to the WPHP? As women working on the history of women’s book history, what does it feel like, and what do we have to offer? What ground has women’s book history trodden — and where is it going? And how can we contribute to a sustainable future for the field? As relatively new contributors to it, Kate and Kandice were thrilled to be joined—for...

The WPHP Monthly Mercury

Finding, Building, Sustaining, Supporting, feat. Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, and Maureen Bell

The WPHP Monthly Mercury

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