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.
Episodes
39 episodes
A Newcastle Novelist, feat. Tricia Monsour
On the WPHP, our encounters with books and the women who worked on them are bibliographically-focused, as they must be for a project of this scale—focused attention on the contents of every work and the stories of their producers simply isn’t p...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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47:27
Bibliographic Intimacies, feat. Megan Peiser and Emily D. Spunaugle
For Episode 3 of the fifth season of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “Bibliographic Intimacies,” Kate and Kandice interviewed Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:28:50
Deal with the Devil (feat. Kate Ozment)
Every year, come hell or high water, The WPHP Monthly Mercury has released a gothic-inflected Halloween episode—and this year, we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s 1806 novel
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:05:01
Authority Issues
Authority records, authority figures, authoritative scholarship... What does it really mean to have authority? Nothing good, according to Kandice. However, in working on a new project that relies on bibliographic data from the WPHP, sh...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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53:00
Address-ing Firms; or, The Consequences of Our Own Actions
One of the fields we include in our records for publishing, printing, and bookselling businesses in the WPHP—our firm records—is for the addresses where they operated. Sometimes this is straightforward: one individual working at one location fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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40:36
Ghosts of Print Culture Past
Do you believe in ghosts? In this spirited (ha ha) Halloween episode, Kandice and Kate encounter a ghost of their very own in circulating library owner and author Mary Tuck
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:19:40
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 5: Kirsteen McCue
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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29:47
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 4: Manu Samriti Chander
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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26:04
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 3: Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnes
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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45:33
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 2: Noah Heringman
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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25:58
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 1: Jennie Batchelor
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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22:52
It's (A)Live!' The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Organ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:54:00
The Canterbury Fails x The WPHP Monthly Mercury: MONKS!!!
What do the medieval period and the Romantic period have in common? Well, at the very least, badly behaved monks. In Episode 4 of Season 3 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren team up with David Coley and...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:07:58
Working for the (Wo)man ft. Sara Penn, Julianna Wagar, Amanda Law, & Belle Eist
This August, the WPHP has been sharing the Spotlights that make up our newest Spotlight Series, “Down the Rabbit Hole: Researching Women in the Book Trades.” Over the course of t...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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37:54
Wollstonecraft, Revisited (feat. E.J. Clery)
If you’ve ever taken an undergraduate English class on the Romantic period, you have probably encountered Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A widely read and controversial writer of political treatises,...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:17:48
By the Author of...
Our inaugural episodes of each season have thus far begun with beloved canonical authors: Jane Austen in Season One, Frances Burney in Season Two. This season, we’ve turned to an anonymous author—one whose identity is still a mystery. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:07:52
Season 2 in Review
As we prepare to launch Season 3 of the The WPHP Monthly Mercury later this week, project director Michelle Levy takes a look back at Season 2. Putting it into conversation with Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein's Data Femini...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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36:49
The Queen of the Disciplines (feat. Lisa Shapiro)
Throughout the month of March, the WPHP has been posting Spotlights about women philosophers in print in the WPHP as part of our Women & Philosophy Spotlight Series to celebrate Women’s History Month. Contributors to the series includ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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59:10
Transatlantic Trajectories (feat. Melissa J. Homestead)
In July 2020, project lead Michelle Levy and lead editor Kandice Sharren attended a virtual workshop hosted by Amy Tims at the American Antiquarian Society titled “Searching the AAS Catalog: Keyword & Browse.” This workshop introduced them ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:06:38
Mary Hays, Mapped (feat. Timothy Whelan)
In 1803, Mary Hays published the six-volume work Female Biography, a substantial work of scholarship that relied on more than one hundred sources to write biographies about more than 300 hundred women. But how did Hays, a Dissenting wr...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:25:00
The Business of Gossip
In Episode 7 of Season 2 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “The Business of Gossip,” hosts Kate and Kandice follow the highly successful Henry Colburn, leading publisher of fiction in the early nineteenth century, across his three main busi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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31:52
The Ecology of Databases (feat. Lawrence Evalyn)
Why hasn’t the third edition of Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife been digitized? Why doesn’t GoogleBooks group the different volumes of multi-volume works together in a single catalogue record? And, what do authors and pandas ...
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1:23:30
The Witching Hour
In last October's episode, “Of Monks and Mountains!!!” Kate and Kandice each read a gothic novel found in the WPHP, and it was so much fun that we simply had to do it again. For S...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:06:39
Cheap Thrills (Pay Lemoine's Bills) (feat. Sara Penn and Roy Bearden-White)
In 1794, Ann Lemoine’s husband, Henry, who was an author and publisher, went to debtor’s prison—this led to their separa...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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50:38
A Brief Journey through Women's Travel Writing in the Summer of 2021 (feat. the WPHP team)
Throughout the month of August, we’ve been sharing Spotlights on the WPHP site as part of the “Around the World with Six Women” Spotlight Series on travel writing. In this mon...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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46:36