November 30, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMagic moments A young Shakespeare scholar inspired by the Ransom Center wants to spark others’ sense of wonder.
November 30, 2018, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing ArtsA family affair by Kate O’Toole It was through a friend in London, Professor Eva Griffith, that I first received unimpeachable bona fides for the Harry Ransom Center. Some years ago, Eva had received a fellowship from the Ransom Center to do research relating to the seventeenth-century playwright James Shirley.
November 30, 2018, Filed Under: ArtSeason’s greetings in the Ransom Center’s collections “Dear Miss Crawford,” writes D. H. Lawrence in a letter dated December 23, 1909, “I hope my verses won’t offend you. I know they are poor enough. But do you like my little card?” The “little card,” sent to Grace Crawford and today part of the D. H. Lawrence collection… read more
November 15, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA Twain treasure hunt Alan Gribben has spent almost 50 years hunting down Mark Twain’s formidable personal library, which housed more than 3,000 titles. In the first volume of his findings, Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (NewSouth Books, 2019), Gribben presents the discoveries of his life’s work, uncovering… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the StaffA day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern As an English student at Florida A&M University, I was attracted to this internship because it granted me an opportunity to really explore an archival library.
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsPowerful currents: John Wilson’s Down by the Riverside prints The dark male figure, head bent to the driving rain indicated by the dense lines that cover the page, lifts a slight woman into a simple rowboat. The boat’s bow is pointed through the floodwaters toward higher ground, its port side steadied by a second stooped male.
