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An Anonymous Author Unveiled, 125 Years Later

On March 4, 2011 By

It’s not often that we acquire two copies of the same work at the Library.  Sometimes, however, a second copy can have unique characteristics that make it nearly irresistible—as in the case of a copy of The Fall of the Great Republic recently acquired for the Glenn R. Negley Collection of [...]

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A Glorious Revolution

On February 6, 2010 By

Early in Gloriana; or The Revolution of 1900, a rare 1890 novel recently acquired by the RBMSCL, the heroine, twelve-year-old Gloria de Lara, stands on the seashore, plotting:
“I was imagining the foam flakelets to be girls . . . and I looked upon them as my audience. I told them . [...]

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