LADIES’ MISTAKES—James Laver— Knopf ($2). Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in “heroic couplets.” Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely ...
After the success of his debut memoir, Boy Erased, Garrard Conley felt pressure to follow up his bestselling memoir with a contemporary auto-fictional novel, as many of his contemporaries have done ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A professor of history and curator-in-charge at the Yale Peabody Museum has released an award-winning book focused on 18th-century information by taking readers on a journey ...
ADRIENNE: THE LIFE OF THE MARQUISE DE LA FAYETTE (482 pp.)—André Mourois—McGraw-Hill ($7.95). The 16-year-old bridegroom was already dreaming of cutting a swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14 ...
A new book takes readers into collector Edward Brooke-Hitching’s “madman’s library” Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History An engraving from German zoologist Ernst Haeckel's ...
Sapphic Crossings, a new book by the Women's and Gender Studies program director at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, explores why cross-dressing women were popular in 18th century British ...
Letter-writing in the 18th century. I was less quick to understand that letters were not just a source for learning about religion and slavery; rather, letter-writing itself is a practice with a ...
MANCHESTER — Assigned the task of creating 21st-century digital images of pages from books written in the 1700s, employees at Morgan Records Management in Manchester took a unique approach. Combine ...
A rare 18th century Chinese book collection inadvertently was destroyed by Augustana College library staff during a process to eliminate outdated and unused books from the campus library. Professor ...
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