Even though Sir Walter Scott never met Rebecca Gratz, legend has it that Washington Irving so vividly described her to him that he was inspired to use her as a model for
Ivanhoe’s Rebecca. Join us for a speculative discussion with award-winning Irving biographer Brian Jay Jones and Susan Sklaroff, Rosenbach docent and author of a blog devoted to Rebecca Gratz.

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