[In Progress] Gothic Transformations: Monsters and Mad Science With the Ghoul Guides, Dr. Lauren Nixon and Dr. Mary Going | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • June 13, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 27, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

A 6-session course exploring the transformations of the Gothic in the nineteenth century. Following the origin of the Gothic with Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto in 1765 and the rise of Gothic icons Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis in the 1790s and early 1800s, the nineteenth century saw the Gothic turn towards monsters, supernatural transformations, and science.  

The Bloomsday Festival

Date / Time

  • June 16, 2023
    11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Every year, the world celebrates Bloomsday on June 16, the day that James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904. Nowhere celebrates quite like the Rosenbach, home of Joyce’s manuscript. Bloomsday is a day-long public reading held on Delancey Place with musical performances that bring the epic novel to life.

[SOLD OUT!] Reading Middlemarch with Dr. Sean Christopher Hughes | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • June 21, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Registration Tuition for this course is $250. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected]. Registration opens (more…)

FREE! Welcome America Open House 

Date / Time

  • June 24, 2023
    12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

As part of Philadelphia’s Welcome America festival, The Rosenbach will is opening its doors for free. Those visiting on June 24 will get to explore an exhibition on presidential history and our museum founders’ collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Pickwick Monthly (online)

Date / Time

  • June 24, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • July 15, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • August 19, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • September 23, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • October 21, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • November 18, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • December 16, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • January 20, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • February 17, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • March 16, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • April 20, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 18, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 22, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • July 20, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • August 17, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • September 21, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • October 19, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us for a monthly journey through Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first serialized novel written by  Dickens and was published in 20 monthly parts (2-3 chapters per month) from March 1836-October 1837. Edward G. Pettit and a rotating set of Dickensian cohosts will talk about (more…)

Sunflowers and Peacocks: A Wilde-ly Aesthetic Bibliococktails 

Date / Time

  • June 28, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us for a bibliococktails that celebrates the Aesthetic Movement, an artistic style that spanned the second half of the nineteenth century, which aimed to produce beautiful “art for art’s sake” rather than for moral or didactic purposes. Enjoy peacock and sunflower themed cocktails inspired by two of the major decorative motifs of the movement, don your finest dandy apparel, pin on a green carnation and raise a glass to the most famous of aesthetes, Oscar Wilde.