Thomas Hardy Stays At Home, Thanks To 104 Year Old Friend. April 12, 2010

Norrie Woodhall has a new claim to fame when it comes to Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy. She’s just provided the inspiration for a successful campaign to keep some valuable Hardy manuscripts in his native Dorset. At 104 years-of-age, Norrie might seem an unlikely muse for Dorset’s die hard Hardy fans. But she’s been connected with the writer since before she was born: Norrie Woodhall says her mother was the inspiration for Hardy’s tragic heroine, Tess…

Bloom Returns to Rare Books at 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair

Reporting 36,000 miles above somewhere in the Western United States: The long winter that has kept the rare book trade chilly has passed; Spring is in the air, the sun is out, the temperature is warming, green has returned to leaves and dealer bank accounts. The parting clouds observed at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair last February appear to have completely opened and moved on. The weather inside and outside the Fair was classic…

Will True Anarchy Reign at 2010 Anarchist Book Fair? April 8, 2010

New York City Anarchist Book Fair, 2009. The 4th annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, will take place on April 17, 2010, at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, New York City, a center of anarchist life, culture, struggle, and ideas for 150 years, In addition, there will be two days of panels, presentations, workshops,…

Charles Dickens’ Model for the Modern Rehab Facility: Victorian Health Care Reform April 7, 2010

On November 29, 1842, London’s Morning Chronicle published a short, unusual piece by Charles Dickens, already a celebrated writer and novelist, titled The Sanatorium. Written shortly after Dickens’s return from his first American tour, it reflected both his deep and lasting interest in public affairs and his fascination with medicine and the medical profession, particularly mental illness, detailed descriptions of which form central passages in several of Dickens’s novels. Thomas Chapman was chairman of the…

2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair or Sunny? April 6, 2010

The 2010 New York Antiquarian Book Fair previews this Thursday evening at the Park Avenue Armory, officially opens on Friday and continues through Sunday, April 11, 2010. On Friday, Nicholas Basbanes, the rare book world’s Boswell, will sign copies of his new book, About the Author: Inside the Creative Process. On Saturday, Stuart Lutz will sign copies of his book, The Last Leaf: Voices of History’s Last-Known Survivors. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of…

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