Biblioventures: Monsters and Ghosts, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Christmas Carol

Date / Time

  • October 7, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 14, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 21, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 28, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:10 pm
  • November 11, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 18, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 25, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 2, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 9, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 16, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us on a new Biblioventure with two six-part series of haunted works of the nineteenth century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Biblioventures: The Teacher’s Edition | Virtual Program

Date / Time

  • October 7, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 14, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 21, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 28, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 7, 2024
    4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

We are pleased to offer, for the first time, a Biblioventures companion program especially for high school educators.

[SOLD OUT] The Ladies of the House of Love: The Rosenbach’s Feminist & Queer Gothic Literature Book Club

Date / Time

  • October 8, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • November 12, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • December 10, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

As a literary genre, the Gothic is often associated with ominous castles, dark, stormy nights, and people fleeing from unnamed horrors. But the Gothic is—and always has been—much more complicated and interesting than this because it uses gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and the erotic to hint at the radical potential inherent in all of us. The Ladies of the House of Love book club reads historic and contemporary works of Gothic fiction. Each month, the club cozies up in the candle-lit,* historic West Library of the Rosenbach mansion, views objects from the collection, and discusses the Gothic’s connections to gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.  

[SOLD OUT] Reading Macbeth with Jim Casey | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • October 9, 2024
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 23, 2024
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 6, 2024
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 20, 2024
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 4, 2024
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.

Whose America? with Kermit Roosevelt | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • October 10, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • November 14, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • December 12, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • January 9, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Kermit Roosevelt explores the America the Founders designed, and the America that came to be, through documents and books in the Rosenbach’s American history collection.

[SOLD OUT] Reading Ulysses with Michael Barsanti

Date / Time

  • October 13, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • November 17, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • December 8, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • January 12, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • February 9, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • March 9, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • April 13, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 11, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 8, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

To read James Joyce’s masterpiece together and have fun doing it, with freewheeling discussion, amusing and brief digressions, penetrating insights, mind-opening questions, and occasional singing.