I began blogging for Fine Books in late 2009. I remember agonizing over that first post, not yet acclimated to the kinds of content I should consider worthwhile for the Fine Books blog.
literary memorabilia
Literary memorabilia is alluring to collectors, as the recent Joan Didion auction made clear.
Yesterday in the artsy community of Hudson, New York, an historic, eight-hour auction took place.
The largest exhibition of Thomas Hardy objects ever displayed at one time has opened in the region he made famous through his fiction.
The desk on which Dame Hilary Mantel wrote her multi-award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
A new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire shines an intriguing light not on Charlotte’s work but on her clothes.
Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch, an engagement ring he gave to his last fiancée, and a fragment of the poet’s coffin are among the artifacts recently donated to Richmond, Virginia’s
Newbury, Berkshire, England — The address book of one of the most important British female writers Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was one of the many pieces in high demand in
Paris – The action of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses famously takes place over a single day in Dublin and so vivid is the author’s depiction of the city that it almost becomes a charact
A chair belonging to eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne has returned to his home in Yorkshire 250 years after his death.
