Remember that story we were spinning about Charlotte Brontë, Judi Dench, books the size of a sensible portion of cheese, a man whose guilty brain is on fire? Ringing any… Read more »

While antique booksellers and conservators have long relied on a book’s odor to help them determine important information about its origin and method of manufacture, they’ve never had a concrete… Read more »

You may be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, but the works of these two inspiring women are about to receive a lot of attention… Read more »

The Director of London’s British Museum, Neil MacGregor is to step down from his job at the end of this year. MacGregor has been at the helm of the institution… Read more »

In something of an antidote to last week’s disheartening news about the Edgar Allan Poe house, the Guardian reports that the one surviving Charles Dickens home in London has reopened… Read more »

While the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum has not actually fallen, it is certainly facing some hard times. Poe’s historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized in the past… Read more »

It’s been a couple weeks since I last wrote about Beatrix Potter, so I’m sure people are waiting with bated breath for the next post about her … So I’m… Read more »

The Reading Eagle have announced that the John Updike Society has finalized plans to buy the author’s childhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania, for $200,000. Updike, who died in 2009, lived… Read more »