Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for October, 2009

• Scary Stories in Special Collections
  Posted October 29, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections’ dim-lit stacks hold rare copies of some of the most famous tales of horror, mystery, and otherworldly terror!  I thought I’d highlight a few in the spirit of Halloween: 1.  Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the wanderer: a tale (second edition, 1821).  This famous Gothic novel, by the great-uncle of Oscar Wilde, tells the [...]

• 19th century children’s magazines
  Posted October 13, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The Rare Book and Victorian collections contain a wide variety of periodicals printed in the US and Great Britain for children and young adults. They offer an intriguing glimpse into the experiences of juvenile readers on both sides of the Atlantic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as how adult authors socialized [...]