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Mitfordian Musings on the Year 1823

December 17, 2017 · by · in Student Profiles of MRM's World, Students on the Digital Mitford · Leave a comment

Brooke Stewart, our Pitt-Greensburg student research assistant on the Digital Mitford project, contributes this blog post reflecting on the immense research she did over several months in 2017 on Mary Russell Mitford’s letters. Brooke has been completing the editing, proof-correcting, and research of Mitford’s manuscript letters from the year 1823, including identification of mentioned people, […]

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd: A member of the “Q” Continuum?

May 30, 2014 · by · in Theory and Methods · Leave a comment

Here’s a rather impressive sight of Thomas Noon Talfourd as painted by Henry William Pickersgill (National Portrait Gallery number 417), in which perhaps he shares at least a passing resemblance to “the Q” of Star Trek: Talfourd was a friend and very frequent correspondent of Mitford’s and a native of Reading, Berkshire, as well as […]