marginalia
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Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
At first it appears messy, improvised and oblique — the sculptural equivalent of marginalia.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2022
But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
