FEATURED PUBLISHER

Mandylion Press

For lovers of nineteenth-century literature, a more dynamic and impassioned small literary press cannot be found. Founded in 2022 by budding art historian Madeline Porsella (at the time a PhD student at Yale) and Mabel Capability Taylor (design historian moonlighting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Capital Projects Department), Mandylion has developed a worldwide cult following for its iconic and thoughtfully-designed paperback publishing program exclusively focused on the retrieval of forgotten or out-of-print nineteenth-century books by women and eccentric writers. Their podcast, 1-800-1800, dives further into period art, culture, history and scandal.