See the woman who likely inspired Lydia Bennet

Posted on 04/09/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The Jane Austen’s House Museum has acquired a portrait of the woman believed to be the inspiration for Lydia Bennet....

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Letters from Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Hardy's wife become public

Posted on 04/02/2020 at 02:50 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Hey, want to think about the past instead of the present? The Guardian has recently posted about letters either from...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Memorabilia, The Guardian

Miniature handmade book by J.K. Rowling heads to auction

Posted on 03/12/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Wondering what you might need as a first-year student at Hogwarts? Well, if you have at least £30,000 ($37,865) on...

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Tagged As: Memorabilia, Young adult literature

Recently recovered 15th-century manuscript is headed to auction

Posted on 03/10/2020 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A rare and extremely old manuscript by a beloved Persian poet will head to auction. The gold-illuminated Divan of Hafez,...

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D.H. Lawrence's great-niece finds a postcard he sent his girlfriend

Posted on 03/06/2020 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Live in an older house and tempted to skip spring cleaning? Don’t — you might find memorabilia from famous authors...

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Typewriters owned by Kerouac and Hemingway head to auction

Posted on 02/26/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you’ve ever dreamed of sharing a typewriter with a famous author, today may be your lucky day. (As long...

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18th-century book toilets were a thing — and one is for sale

Posted on 02/23/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A commode shaped like a book strikes us as sacrilegious to most avid readers. But apparently it was completely normal...

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Exhibition honors the 50th anniversary of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five"

Posted on 02/13/2020 at 10:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Slaughterhouse-Five turned fifty last year, and in honor of that milestone, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library has unveiled an...

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Charles Dickens Museum acquires over 300 of the author's items

Posted on 02/09/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

More than three hundred Charles Dickens items have been plucked from a private collection by the London museum devoted to...

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Charlotte Brontë's miniature book goes on display tomorrow

Posted on 01/31/2020 at 11:50 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The tiny book that Charlotte Brontë wrote and bound at age fourteen will soon be on display at the Brontë...

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