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A collection of your favorite author's favorite authors on exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ...

American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers a lively, personal account of collecting works by, and about, eight of Austen’s favourite women authors, all identifiable from mentions in her ...

As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying other people’s curiosity. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew ...

In celebration, rare book company Type Punch Matrix will display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's ...

The exhibit is open weekdays from 10am - 4pm, February 4th through May 30 in the Special Collections reading room on the 2nd floor of KSL, and will be open both before and after Rebecca Romney's talk.

But is she really the “first” great English female author? Rebecca Romney has built her career searching for rare books around the world. She joins The Excerpt to detail her path down a 5 ...

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

Straub said Sittenfeld, the author of books like “Prep” and "Eligible," is “just the best.” "Show Don't Tell" is Sittenfeld's second short story collection. "To me, she is the ideal writer. incisive, ...

An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: her letters and books. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” surveys the ...

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney Rare book expert and dealer Rebecca Romney recreates the bookshelf that ...

Shortly after it begins, Rebecca Romney’s first solo work of nonfiction “becomes something of a mystery novel,” said ...