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• Victorian novels: recent acquisitions
  Posted January 23, 2012 by Maggie Kopp

  One major area of emphasis in the Victorian and Edwardian Literature Collections is work by British women novelists.  Special Collections owns first editions of beloved authors like the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot; but there is a wealth of literature by novelists who are less celebrated today but produced best-sellers in their own [...]

• New critical works on Herman Melville
  Posted December 13, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  The following books are a sampling of some of the recent works of criticism acquired for the Herman Melville Collection.  To find these books and others, search the library catalog for the subject “Melville, Herman” or “Melville, Herman, 1819-1891–Criticism and interpretation.” David Dowling, Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today.  [...]

• New acquisitions on Romanticism
  Posted October 28, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  Several new critical works on William Wordsworth, his contemporaries, and English Romanticism have been added to the Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth. These include: Arthur H. Bell, “The child in Wordsworth’s major poetry: a master metaphor and its implications.”  Lexingford Publishing, 2010. Jacqueline Labbe, “Writing romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807.”  Palgrave [...]

• Beatrix Potter in Special Collections
  Posted September 28, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  A recent addition to the Edwardian literature collection is a copy of Beatrix Potter’s “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” (1906).  This little book is one of two Potter tales originally published in a concertina, or accordion, format.  Special Collections has a nearly-complete set of first editions of Potter’s 23 tales, as well as [...]

• The Papers of Annette Lyon
  Posted July 29, 2011 by Kristi Young

  Popular Utah author Annette Lyon has donated her papers to Perry Special Collections. The author of many historical and contemporary novels, Lyon’s recent book Band of Sisters was a Whitney 2010 award winner. Her papers contain correspondence, publicity materials, notes that led to novels and copies of Band of Sisters and a grammar guide entitled [...]

• New acquisitions in British Romanticism
  Posted April 26, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  BYU Special Collections’ latest acquisitions for the Robert Burns Collection and the Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth include critical works, translations, and books on literature and art inspired by these two poets: Douglas Gifford, ed.  Addressing the Bard: Twelve Contemporary Poets Respond to Robert Burns.  (2009) Cecilia Powell. Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts: [...]

• New acquisitions for American authors collections
  Posted March 21, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections has comprehensive collections of printed works by and about American authors Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.  These are some of the newest critical and biographical works we have acquired for these collections: Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia (2010) Susan Cheever, Louisa May Alcott (2010) [...]

• The Victorian “Penny Dreadful”
  Posted November 29, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections has recently added a number of penny dreadfuls to its Victorian Collection.  The term “penny dreadful” refers to a genre of popular fiction which had its heyday in mid- to late-Victorian Britain.  Penny dreadfuls were cheaply-produced, often second-rate novels issued in parts, which were consumed by working-class readers.  Each part usually cost a [...]

• A recent addition to the Robert Burns Collection
  Posted October 7, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  Janet Little (1759–1813) was a contemporary, and admirer, of poet Robert Burns.  She was a servant in the household of Frances Dunlop of Dunlop, a patron and correspondent of Robert Burns.  In 1789, Little sent Burns some of her poems.  Burns was slow to respond to Little (one critic surmises that Burns might have found [...]

• Recent acquisitions: British women writers
  Posted July 29, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  Recent additions to Special Collections’ Victorian and Edwardian Literature Collections include works by Alice Meynell and May Sinclair, two women writers whose careers spanned the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Alice Meynell (1847-1922) began her career as a poet.  She was also an essayist and literary critic.  After her marriage, she assisted her husband in [...]