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Rebecca Romney

@rebeccaromney.com

Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.

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Dr. Emily Friedman@ecfriedman.com · last yr.

If anyone's curious, my 18C Novel Course will be reading: Haywood, FANTOMINA (1725) Fielding, THE GOVERNESS (1749) Burney, EVELINA (1778) Austen, EMMA (1816) Anonymous, THE WOMAN OF COLOUR With @rebeccaromney.com JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF as guide to an additional novel adoption.

Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · last yr.

This is well said. In the humanities, often the process itself is the point. The field of AI is results focused. AI will not be of much use to the humanities as long as its function (and branding) is to eliminate process — to eliminate thinking and experience-based learning.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last yr.

The aim of writing assignments isn’t to produce a certain amount of text content that sounds a certain way. It’s for students to think, write, write out their thinking and think about their writing, in ways that inform their thinking and writing afterwards. Gen AI isn’t useful for any part of that.

Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · last yr.

As a rare book dealer I think a lot about which books survive the centuries to continue to be read by subsequent generations. Among the books of the 20th century I most believe should continue to be read in 200 years: Goodnight Moon. It is a perfect book.

Victoria J Barnett@vjbarnett.bsky.social · last yr.

I finished this book over the weekend and it is *such* a great read! For Austen fans especially, but it’s more than that: about book collecting, women writers, and how writers become part of “the canon.”

Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · last yr.

This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

Press image for Author Events Presents, April 24th at 7:00pm, Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis, in person at thr Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, with headshots of both people and an image of the front cover of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF
BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃@book-historia.bsky.social · last yr.

Philly & Wilmington people! Are you interested in Jane Austen and the women she read? Have I got a book event for you! 🤩 THIS THURSDAY, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social author talk for Jane Austen's Bookshelf with @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with ME! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

Events: Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austens Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collectors Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER In Conversation with Allie Alvis Ja...

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Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · 2y ago

When is the last time we talked about the stunning jacket design for the 1946 first edition of Ann Petry’s THE STREET? Let’s talk about it more. I wish I knew the artist.

Front cover of the Street with an orange ombré effect and a portrait of the main character in the top left corner, half on the front and half on the spine Side view of The Street jacket showing the full view of the portrait of the main character across the spine and front panel
Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · 2y ago

Now on its way to a special collections library: these Meiji era (1886) educational cards introducing Japanese students to major figures of Western history and literature, based on the classic Iroha Karuta matching game. Among those included: Newton, Homer, George Washington, Cleopatra, & Moses.

Selection of cards laid out, including Thomas Becket, Patrick Henry, Lafayette, Caesar, and Peter the GreatSelection of cards laid out, with Elizabeth I, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin visible
Rebecca Romney@rebeccaromney.com · 2y ago

I talked about JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF with Kelsey Bates, director of @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social, who asked delightful questions (and is now reading Ann Radcliffe!) www.rosenbach.org/blog/in-conv...

In Conversation with Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf — The Rosenbach Museum & Library

Thanks to rare book dealer Rebecca Romney, I am more than halfway through Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho , a book I would have never picked up if it weren’t for Rebecca’s new book, Jane Au...

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