Rebecca Rego Barry has written an article for the Lapham’s Quarterly “Roundtable” blog titled “Rebuilding Jane Austen’s Library” – citing Peter Sabor and Gillian Dow on the beginnings and importance of the “Reading with Austen” project. Barry also writes of other virtual libraries, such as those of Edith Wharton and Herman Melville. You can read all about it here:

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/rebuilding-jane-austens-library

Petworth: the White Library, looking down the Enfilade from the Alcove, 1827 1827 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/D22678

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