rabbit hearted girl

I will be adding more people to the Book Club list for February. I'm not accepting new emails just yet, but if you keep an eye out on my instagram you will see when I am.

Desk essentials: journal, book, lip balm and a pen.

I love you, October. I’ve been due a change for a while now.

Today, at The Independent Cafe in Oxford, I drank two lattes and almost completed my Writing Development Programme application. Almost.

No one was kidding when they said how good this book is - and Fantasy really isn't my usual genre. I had no plans on buying it just before visiting Oxford but I picked it up in a bookshop I hadn't planned on going to before I left and haven't put it back down.

I was curious to see what type of manuscripts were inside the Bodleian so searched through the online catalogue looking for Christine de Pizan (whom I based my BA dissertation on). There are a few manuscripts featuring here and luckily one of the digitised manuscripts is this codex featuring Pizan’s Epistre Othea. Not only that - but here’s a rare pic of her writing at her desk!!!! I’m so thrilled 😭❤️

The view from the Duke Humfrey's reading room in The Bodleian Library.

This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

The Duke Humfrey’s Library - the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

The view of Oxford from St Mary’s tower.