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Curated Libraries with Articles to View

Each library contains the Agents, the 'women marginalists' in the collection, the Books they owned and the Marks they made in the margins during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Each of these views highlights an aspect of the early modern women’s marginalia library. They provide definitions, selected images, data visualisations and essays on the four main kinds of marginalia in the library (ownership, evidence of reading, marks of recording, and graffiti); the locations in the material book where such marks are found; and how such marks were attributed to women agents. Other views enlarge upon who those women agents were, the repositories from which the marginalia came, and the types of book that women marked.