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A World Inscribed – Introduction
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In 1900 or thereabouts, Lorina Bulwer, an inmate of the Great Yarmouth workhouse in the
east of England, produced a remarkable and extremely long letter. It was embroidered on
samples of different kinds of material which she had sewn together to form a scroll of multicoloured
cloth, five metres long (Image 1.1). On her sampler scroll, Lorina stitched a
rambling autobiography in which she spat out her anger at being confined to the workhouse,
and more specifically to its female lunatic ward. She asserted her identity frequently, repeated
her name many times and declared that she was free. Lorina Bulwer’s sampler reminds us of
the importance of writing at all levels of society, for both intimate and public purposes as
well as in the process of identity formation. It also demonstrates that writing is ubiquitous,
and often uses unexpected materials and unorthodox technologies. In this book, we examine
the importance of writing at different social levels in a range of historical contexts across the
world. As in the case of Lorina Bulwer, the discussion will take account of writing’s
institutional frameworks, its personal expressions and the range of material support it has
adopted in past societies.
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LYONS, Martyn & MARQUILHAS, Rita (2017): A World Inscribed — Introduction. In M. Lyons & R. Marquilhas (eds.) Approaches to the History of Written Culture - A World Inscribed. London: Palgrave, pp. 1–20.
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Palgrave