Commonplace Book

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By Theryn Fleming (Beaver) I love commonplace books; the most recent entry in my own is from the photographer Alfred Stieglitz: Nearly right is child's play. —Michael Dirda When I was eleven, my godmother gave me a hardcover notebook.

A commonplace journal is not complicated and doesn’t need to be fancy. It is simply a place where notes and quotes from our reading are kept. The simpler we keep it, the better. Let me show you how basic commonplacing really can be. It appears I am the cheapskate of the group. I use college-ruled...

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Commonplace books are incredibly soothing to keep and offer a quieter, more creative space for writing and exploration than journals because they are not limited to personal experiences.

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For as long as I can remember, I have copied quotes from books, poems, songs, Scripture. I cannot remember what sparked the idea, but I am grateful that I began this lifelong pursuit. I remember ma…

I put together a little infographic to share my commonplace book practice. Enjoy and repin!

Some of you may have been overwhelmed by the amount of things recommended to include in your commonplace book by the “John Locke” and “Jenny Rallens” methods. I’m here…

Most commonplace books, and there aren’t many of those, are private collections of notable passages that readers have collected over the years. Very few have been published and those that have are primarily the collections of well-known individuals—Thomas Jefferson, John Milton, W. H. Auden, Alex Guinness, etc. However, I suspect a relatively modest number have been published privately, probably less today than in previous centuries. Who can ever know these things? From the earliest days of…

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By Theryn Fleming (Beaver) I love commonplace books; the most recent entry in my own is from the photographer Alfred Stieglitz: Nearly right is child's play. —Michael Dirda When I was eleven, my godmother gave me a hardcover notebook.

Behold the power of the commonplace book. Read what we can learn about our past from commonplace books.

My research and development has focused on the history of Common Place books as a direct relationship to popular culture.Following my main research interests of 19th women’s social history, folk …