Rebecca Romney
Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyDeadline July 1 for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on the Honey & Wax website! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyTHE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN! We have 10 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyIf anyone's curious, my 18C Novel Course will be reading: Haywood, FANTOMINA (1725) Fielding, THE GOVERNESS (1749) Burney, EVELINA (1778) Austen, EMMA (1816) Anonymous, THE WOMAN OF COLOUR With @rebeccaromney.com JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF as guide to an additional novel adoption.
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyI consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.
- If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
- It’s so beautiful
- This Rare 15th-Century Manuscript Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration 📜 news.artnet.com/art-world/te...
- This is well said. In the humanities, often the process itself is the point. The field of AI is results focused. AI will not be of much use to the humanities as long as its function (and branding) is to eliminate process — to eliminate thinking and experience-based learning.
- As a rare book dealer I think a lot about which books survive the centuries to continue to be read by subsequent generations. Among the books of the 20th century I most believe should continue to be read in 200 years: Goodnight Moon. It is a perfect book.
- Got a want match for a rare book and can’t remember why I made the want in the first place: The Rebecca Romney Story.
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyWe’re celebrating our 10th anniversary with an exhibition of our most beloved artifacts—100 objects selected by the 10 teams who steward the collection. 10 × 10 for 10 is on view until October 2025. Thu: 1:00pm–8:00pm (free!) Fri–Sat: 11:00am–6:00pm Visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/?utm_c...
- Eeeee I love this book so much and I am utterly delighted by this
- “…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum” – @sarahweinman.com on the fiction of Josephine Tey lithub.com/a-mystery-no...
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There are 5 independent book stores within 2 miles of me—Da Book Joint, Call & Response Books, 57th Street Books, Seminary-Coop, and Powells— and I am looking forward to visiting all of them this Saturday on Independent Bookstore Day.
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyI finished this book over the weekend and it is *such* a great read! For Austen fans especially, but it’s more than that: about book collecting, women writers, and how writers become part of “the canon.”
- This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...
- This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...
- Today in Cleveland!
- Join us for what promises to be a fantastic event tomorrow. You can come to our library if you are in Cleveland, or fire up the livestream. @rebeccaromney.com on Jane Austen and 18th century women novelists- not to be missed!
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyPhilly & Wilmington people! Are you interested in Jane Austen and the women she read? Have I got a book event for you! 🤩 THIS THURSDAY, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social author talk for Jane Austen's Bookshelf with @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with ME! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyNext Thursday, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social to hear @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with little ol’ me about her FANTASTIC new book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf! ✨ Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...
- Had a lovely Janeite conversation on the JASNA podcast about Austen’s favorite books! Listen here: jasna.org/austen/podca...
- The Science Behind Old Book Smell
- Identifying a first edition vs. a book club edition:
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyJANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF is a read that keeps on giving— At Jane's (& @rebeccaromney.com's) recommendation, I've now read BELINDA by Maria Edgeworth, & EVELINA, by Frances Burney— in case you are in the mood for stories in which cads are mercilessly ridiculed & get their comeuppance. #booksky
- Tracing the history of the phrase “pride and prejudice” in a new Jane Austen book — fantastic. www.seattlepi.com/news/article...
- I know I’m literally years late to this party, but I’m finally reading Sinykin’s Big Fiction and it is GREAT. I am rapt.
- It’s giving me some gut punches, too, as one who just published a book with the same preoccupations he describes in the case of DFW’s Infinite Jest: how to “engage a reader, much of whose sensibility has been formed by pop culture, without simply becoming more shit in the pop culture machine."
- Sinykin: "Wallace's error was to put too much faith in the ability of his writing to transcend its conditions of production. He overestimated the power of his message and underestimated that of his medium." Phew: yes. Feeling this hard. Not just in publishing, but in my work on, e.g. IG.
- One of my favorite signs that I’m enjoying a nonfiction book: reading it with one finger holding my place in the endnotes, since I know I’ll be flipping back to them every page or two.
- When is the last time we talked about the stunning jacket design for the 1946 first edition of Ann Petry’s THE STREET? Let’s talk about it more. I wish I knew the artist.
- Now on its way to a special collections library: these Meiji era (1886) educational cards introducing Japanese students to major figures of Western history and literature, based on the classic Iroha Karuta matching game. Among those included: Newton, Homer, George Washington, Cleopatra, & Moses.
- Reposted by Rebecca RomneyIf you’re a Jane Austen fan, and of course you are, you’ve got to get Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. It’s such a fun read, I learned a lot, and it’s been so fun to start digging into the works of the authors she writes about.
- So gratified to see @theguardian.com review JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: an unforgettable phrase, “canon jujitsu”! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- My surprised/grateful/joyous/exhausted face as I learned during a 2-hour flight delay that Emma Straub recommended my book this morning on the TODAY Show:
- The segment: www.today.com/video/march-...
- Would 100% attend if I were in Boston.
- Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949
- I talked about JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF with Kelsey Bates, director of @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social, who asked delightful questions (and is now reading Ann Radcliffe!) www.rosenbach.org/blog/in-conv...
- So gratified to see @theguardian.com review JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: an unforgettable phrase, “canon jujitsu”! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- If you’re in London, the delightful Heywood Hill has signed copies of my book available:
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- Any time is a good time to sing the praises of this book
- Reposted by Rebecca Romney"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.
