Date: Monday, April 29, 2019 –
Time: 7:00pm,
Place: Bird in Hand, 11 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Excerpt from the advert from the Ivy Bookshop:
Just over a century after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, devoted readers sought out her letters and personal possessions, as well as first and rare editions of her novels. Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, Goucher College class of 1928, built the most extensive collection in the U.S. of Austen manuscripts, editions, translations, and ephemera–plus one famous relic, a lock of Jane Austen’s hair, which made international news when Mrs. Burke donated it to the Jane Austen House in Chawton, England. Second only to Mrs. Burke’s was the collection formed by Charles Beecher Hogan, Yale class of 1928, which included the topaz cross necklace owned by Austen. Drawing on new research in the two collectors’ personal archives, this presentation establishes the importance to Austen reception history of their pursuit of items that held great personal importance to them.
- Humanities in the Village: Juliette Wells, Professor of English at Goucher College
- Collecting Jane Austen in America: Alberta H. Burke Of Baltimore
- Charles Beecher Hogan of Yale
Other posts on the topic of Jane Austen’s letters and personal possessions and Jane Austen scholars:
- Of Jane Austen’s House Museum, English Country Dancing, and Austen Scholar-in-Residence at Goucher College, Christine Stewart, Jane Austen’s World, February, 2010
- Collection Overview – Jane Austen at Goucher College, Goucher College Library
- Jane Austen at the Morgan Library, Vic Sanborn, Jane Austen’s World, December, 2009
- A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy, Morgan Library Exhibit, Nov, 2009-March, 2010.
Jane Austen's World 
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