The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...

By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s favorite authors. Suddenly it occurs to Romney that perhaps her ...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf is on bookshelves now ... What happened to me is I'm a professional in rare books, and so I sell first editions of important English novels. I sell Robinson Crusoe by ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually ... But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend,” is that ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however ... Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the claim that Austen was “the first great woman writer in English ...

A first edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ‘Peacock ... In 2008, Andrew Chapman, a long-serving rare books specialist at Oxfam's bookshop in St Giles, found a scruffy copy of ...