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Henry Farrell (henryfarrell@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 03:48:04 JST Henry Farrell
- Kieran Healy
This, from an intro essay to Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies, is a particularly grim example of @kjhealy sociology of the typing wife - "I could not but smile when I saw an item in Sotheby’s catalogue photographed and described as “Popper’s typewriter.” I very much doubt that Karl ever touched its keyboard. He left it to Hennie, in what she described as the nightmare years, to type and retype countless versions and revisions." https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2007/07/28/the-last-typing-wife/
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  Question: what is the latest—i.e., most recent—example you know of an academic’s first book where, in the acknowledgments, the author thanks his wife (or some other person’s wife, as in “the redoubtable Mrs Elizabeth Arbuthnot”) for typing and retyping the manuscript with great patience, forbearance, accuracy, and so on? The acknowledgments to academic books are a mini-institution with pretty clear rules that change only slowly over time and show a high degree of homogeneity, particularly for first books.

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