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“Mary Shelley’s Curation of Her Husband’s Legacy”

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. London: T. Hookham, Old Bond Street and J. Ollier,…

ABL Research Fellowship

The Armstrong Browning Library (ABL), located on the campus of Baylor University, is a world-renowned research center and rare-collections library devoted to nineteenth-century studies. The ABL has established a Three-Month Research Fellowship for leading scholars from outside Baylor. Prof. Dino Felluga (English, Purdue…

Dr. Natalie McKnight: “Dickens, the Lowell Mill Girls, and the Language of Spiritual/Material Conditions in A Christmas Carol (and Beyond)”

Friday, February 16th, 2018 4:30-5:30 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Natalie McKnight (Boston U.) will present “Dickens, the Lowell Mill Girls, and the Language of Spiritual/Material Conditions in A Christmas Carol.”

Dr. Lisa Zimmerelli: “Conduct Book Biography: Representations of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era”

Friday, November 10, 2017 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Lisa Zimmerelli (Loyola U., Maryland) will present “Conduct Book Biography: Representations of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era.”

ABL Benefactor’s Day 2017

Each year the Armstrong Browning Library honors all who have contributed and continue to contribute to its ongoing growth and flourishing. This fall the ABL is pleased to present Dr. Dino Felluga Inaugural ABL Three-Month Research Fellow and Professor of English, Purdue University…

International 19th C. Studies Summer Program 2018 Interest Meeting

Friday, Sept. 29 2:45-3:20, ABL Lecture Hall If you’re interested in the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Summer Program, please come to this interest meeting about the 2018 Summer II Course, “Dwelling Responsibly: Legacy of the English Lakes.” If you can’t make it to this meeting,…

Discussion of Research and Rare Items by Dr. Dino Felluga and Dr. Susan Oliver

Friday, Sept. 29 3:30-4:30, ABL Lecture Hall Please join this 19CRS discussion of research and rare items from the ABL’s extensive collection. Dr. Dino Felluga (Purdue University) will present on the manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet “Mr. Haydon’s Portrait of Wm. Wordsworth,” and…

Reception for Prof. Dino Felluga and Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Panel

Friday, Sept. 8 2:45-3:20 ABL Cox Reception Hall Please join us in welcoming the ABL three-month research fellow, Professor Dino Felluga (Purdue, U.) 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Following Professor Felluga’s reception, 19CRS will host this year’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Panel. Ryan Butler (PhD.…

Finding “A Fresh Association” in “The Age of Irreverence”

Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Tennyson’s poem “The age of irreverence” pasted inside back cover. 1st Amer. ed. Original brown cloth. Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s copy with signature and numerous annotations, some of which refer to Ralph Waldo Emerson.…

Writing “Holly”: Christina Rossetti to a Child

Rossetti, Christina. Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1872. With 120 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Holman Stephens, with a two-page autograph letter (signed) and an autograph poem from Rossetti to “Holly.” Includes…