A person holding a black notebook with white handwritten text in front of a green leafy background. The notebook has a small American flag sticker on the top right corner. The handwritten text includes an address in Newport, Oregon, and mentions Shirley Samuels and Martin Y. Tang. The bottom of the page reads "A Murder of Crows approaches, bearing a message." The title of a book by Julian Jones is visible at the bottom.

Hey, you are not Shirley Samuels..

But did you know about her:

Two books on literature, visual culture, and history that are in the works. The first, under submission, is called "Haunted by the Civil War." The second explores women writers and artists in the 19th century United States. These books extend the premises of “Reading the American Novel, 1780-1865” (Blackwell, 2012) and the edited books.

A handwritten note on a navy blue envelope with a book underneath. The note talks about a woman with a kind heart and her work in the culture of sentiment. The book is titled 'The Origin of Conscience in the Business of the Mind' by J. G. Bennett.