A fascinating opportunity at The Rosenbauch in Philadelphia:
November 15, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
With Christine Nelson who curated the 2016 exhibition Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum and authored the companion volume The Brontës: A Family Writes (Scala Arts Publishers). She was the Morgan’s longtime Drue Heinz Curator of Literary & Historical Manuscripts. The first “adult” novel she read was Jane Eyre.
Did you first encounter Jane Eyre
in a high school class, on a family bookshelf, at the local library, or perhaps in a film adaptation? In this tour, we will see (and even feel!) the various ways Brontë’s brilliant 1847 work has taken physical form, from its first incarnation in three simple, cloth-covered volumes to an early 20th century binding depicting Jane as an Edwardian beauty. We will hold copies of Brontë’s novels that have passed through the hands of Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, and Maurice Sendak—into our own. And we will examine one of the Rosenbach’s great treasures: a preface to Jane Eyre in the author’s own hand, in which she famously cautions small-minded critics that “appearance should not be mistaken for truth.” Bring your own beloved copy of any of the Brontë authors’ novels to this special Behind the Bookcase tour as we consider how any book—whether a pristine first edition or a tattered paperback—constitutes a treasure as long as we cherish it.
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