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Teaching Resources for
The Marguerite Hicks Collection

Below are resources to help you and your students explore The Marguerite Hicks Collection. From Digital Exhibits to Biographical Databases to Instructional Videos on Marginalia, the collection can be used to explore a variety of archival and bibliographic concepts and methodologies. 

Marginalia Lab Videos (5)

The videos below were created for Dr. Peiser's ENG 4900 History of the Book in Theory and Practice Senior Seminar, Winter 2020 course. This term, suspended and emergency-converted to digital spaces due to the Global Coronavirus Pandemic, initiated a need for digital resources for teaching history of the book without access to physical collections. These videos were filmed with the materials originally pulled for the class's Marginalia Lab.  Created hastily in our last access to campus and the collection, we hope these videos may be useful to other educators and book historians. We are bibliographers, not videographers, & apologize for the lapses in accessibility in our earliest attempts.

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Course materials made available here are also from Dr. Peiser's ENG 4900 History of the Book in Theory and Practice Senior Seminar, Winter 2020, and can be credited as such.

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The videos below were filmed March 12, 2020 at Oakland University's Kresge Library Reading Room. Transcriptions forthcoming from OU DSS.

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Speaker in videos: Dr. Megan Peiser (English)

Videographer: Prof. Emily Spunaugle (Kresge Library)

Marginalia Lab, video 4

Marginalia Lab, video 1

Transcription: [.doc file]

Books in this video with catalog perma-links:

Marginalia Lab, video 2

Marginalia Lab, video 3

Marginalia Lab, video 5

Transcription: [.doc file]

Books in this video with catalog perma-links:

Title page of "The Ladies Library", with a bookplate of a woman reading on the opposite page

Digital Exhibit 

Anonymous Publications in
The Hicks Collection

Led by Oakland University students, this digital exhibit explores the myriad of anonymously published texts within The Marguerite Hicks Collection to bring power to those authors silenced in historical literary publishing.

Biographical Database

The Women's Print History Project & The Hicks Collection

According to their website, "The Women’s Print History Project is a comprehensive bibliographical database of women’s contributions to print for the long eighteenth century, one of the most convulsive periods in both women’s and print history." The database features 17th and 18th-century texts within The Marguerite Hicks Collection. 

Mary Osier Peeler Title Page
Marguerite Hicks in a black dress, pearls, and glasses

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Marguerite Hicks on Wikipedia

Dr. Lawrence Evalyn at Northwestern University constructed a Wikipedia page for Hicks detailing her life, as well as Thelma James'. He also briefly details the importance of The Marguerite Hicks Collection. 

Professors Emily Spunagle, left, and Megan Peiser, right, look over a book togehter.

The Marguerite Hicks Project

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