January 15, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Revealing an English Schoolmaster’s Piers Plowman Most of the books that came to The University of Texas at Austin as part of the John Henry Wrenn Library didn’t look like old books when they arrived in 1918 and still don’t look old now—not as old, at least, as the publication dates of the printed pages inside… read more
October 22, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsCelebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919.
September 26, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsWhy are some books collected and others merely read? During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.
