Jane Austen&rsquo\;s Bookshelf&nb sp\;investigates the disappearance of Austen&rsquo\;s heroes&mdash\;women writers who were erased from the Western canon&mdash\;to reveal who they w ere\, what they meant to Austen\, and how they were forgotten. Each chapte r profiles a different writer including Frances Burney\, Ann Radcliffe\, C harlotte Lennox\, Charlotte Smith\, Hannah More\, Elizabeth Inchbald\, Hes ter Lynch Thrale Piozzi\, and Maria Edgeworth&mdash\;and recounts Romney&r squo\;s experience reading them\, finding rare copies of their works\, and drawing on connections between their words and Austen&rsquo\;s. Romney co llects the once-famed works of these forgotten writers\, physically recrea ting Austen&rsquo\;s bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers toda y. \;Jane Austen&rsquo\;s Bookshelf \;will encourage you to look beyond assigned reading lists\, question who decides what belongs there\, and build your very own collection of favorite novels.
\nBooks will be available for sale and signing.
\nRegistration is requested.
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\n\nSupported b y Gwinnett Creativity Fund
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Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of T
ype Punch Matrix\, a rare book company based in Washington\, DC. She is th
e rare books specialist on the History Channel&rsquo\;s show Pawn Star
s\, and the co-founder of the Honey &\; Wax Book Collecting Prize.
She is a generalist rare book dealer\, handling works in all fields\, fro
m first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks. Romney is t
he author of Printer&rsquo\;s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book Hist
ory (with JP Romney) and The Romance Novel in English: A Survey i
n Rare Books\, 1769\;&ndash\;1999. Her work as a bookseller or wr
iter has been featured in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Forbes\,
Variety\, The Paris Review\, and more. In 2019\, she was featured in
the documentary on the rare book trade\, The Booksellers. She is
on the Board of the Antiquarian Booksellers&rsquo\; Association of Americ
a (ABAA) and the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
Moder ating the talk will be Judith A. Miller\, a professor of history at Emory University\, and was a founding co-director of the Emory University&rsquo\;s interdisciplinary European Studies Project. Miller&rsq uo\;s present book project is "After the Terror: Passion\, Politics and Vi olence in the Late French Revolution.&rdquo\;
\n\nPresented by Adult Services. \;
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