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Government Funding and the Rosenbach
Like many museums and libraries across the country, late last week we received notice that our two federal grants—one from the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) totaling $248,953 and one from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) totaling $330,977—were canceled…
In Conversation with Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf
Thanks to rare book dealer Rebecca Romney, I am more than halfway through Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, a book I would have never picked up if it weren’t for Rebecca’s new book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf…
Governess Glam: Marianne Moore’s copy of Jane Eyre
When the American poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) picked up this copy of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the cover must have caught her eye. A robust beauty gazes at the reader…
An interview with Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey on her new book The Joyce of Everyday Life
Vicki Mahaffey has been teaching and writing about James Joyce for decades, at the Rosenbach but also at University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. And yet she has more to say on the topic…
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