Lambeth Palace Library: 'Her Booke' Early Modern Women and Their Books
-A celebration of the ways in which women and their books were an integral part of England’s devotional, intellectual, and bibliographical cultures.
Including:
Medieval manuscripts written by the sisters of Syon Abbey on the cusp of the Reformation
Elizabeth I’s newly identified translation of Tacitus
Correspondence from a future Archbishop of Canterbury about Jane Austen
The first editions of the works of Mary Woolstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley
Lectures by Helen Smith (University of York), and exhibition curator Julia King
Curator’s panel where guests can participate in a Q&A with Eleanor Jackson, co-curator of the exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words.
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