Lindsay O’Neill
Biography
My first book The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsyvania Press, 2015) explored the way networks formed through letter writing helped bind together an increasing vast British world during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. During this period it became both easier to send a letter, as the postal system expanded, and more necessary, as the British settled across the globe. Understanding how the British used their letters illuminates how they thought about their society and how they navigated their changing geographic...
Education
- Ph.D. History, Yale University, 2008
- B.A. History, Pomona College, 2001
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Book
- O’Neill, L. (2015). The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Book Review
- O’Neill, L. (2014). Literary Sociability in Early Modern England. Huntington Library Quarterly. pp. 367-371.
Journal Article
- O’Neill, L. J. (2013). Dealing with Newsmongers: News, Trust & Letters in the British World, c. 1670-1730. Huntington Library. Vol. 72 (2), pp. 215-233.
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