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I’m an English professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the author of How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Oxford University Press, 2022). I’ve spent the past two decades studying hundreds of notebooks, and I’m excited to share the most interesting, inspiring, and unique notes with you.

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English professor at CUNY & author of How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information (Oxford University Press, 2022)