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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers of literary scholar and cultural critic Harold Bloom who taught for six decades in the English Department at Yal
An archive chronicling more than six decades of life in Palestine has been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter for study, teaching and resea
The Wordsworth Trust, which operates Wordsworth Grasmere and Dove Cottage, has acquired three letters written by
The Sunderland Collection of world maps has announced the creation of Ex Carta, a sister collection dedicated to fictional and world-building cartography that spans more than 700 years across over
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s close friend and mentor Mrs Anne Lefroy.
The Missouri Botanical Garden has acquired a rare first edition of
A typed and signed Ernest Hemingway letter discussing his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls including his description, "...when you are writing the best book you ever wrote..." will go un
The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot Bri
A near complete run of The Wipers Times trench newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War has sold for £7,000 in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at
