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Archive for May, 2009

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  Posted May 20, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Sherlockians and other fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) are celebrating the author’s 150th birthday this month.  I wanted to mark the occasion by highlighting a few of the many Doyle works found in Special Collections’ Victorian and Edwardian literature collections. Doyle began his writing career during his days as a medical student in [...]

• New acquisitions to the Wordsworth Collection
  Posted May 14, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Two notable recent additions to the Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth: William Green, A description of a series of 60 small prints (1814). This book contains etchings of the Lake District by an artist from Ambleside.  Green originally intended to include a tourist guide as well, but the cost of printing the illustrations alone prohibited [...]