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Rebecca Romney

@rebeccaromney.com

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Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Feb 17

Thank you to the New York Times Book Review for this perceptive and engaged review of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF! As I say in the book: the process is the point.

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Book Review: ‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,’ by Rebecca Romney

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Jun 27

Deadline July 1 for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on the Honey & Wax website! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

Flyer for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, featuring a woman reading a book.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Jun 14

Congratulations! Wonderful news.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 21

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN!
We have 10 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

text: 10 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · May 12

If anyone's curious, my 18C Novel Course will be reading:

Haywood, FANTOMINA (1725)
Fielding, THE GOVERNESS (1749)
Burney, EVELINA (1778)
Austen, EMMA (1816)
Anonymous, THE WOMAN OF COLOUR

With @rebeccaromney.com JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF as guide to an additional novel adoption.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · May 5

I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.

Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · May 3

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · May 6

It’s so beautiful

Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · May 5

This Rare 15th-Century Manuscript Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration 📜
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This Rare 15th-Century Manuscript Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library's ultra-rare Black Book of Hours is the recipient of this year's TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · May 5

This is well said. In the humanities, often the process itself is the point. The field of AI is results focused. AI will not be of much use to the humanities as long as its function (and branding) is to eliminate process — to eliminate thinking and experience-based learning.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · May 5

The aim of writing assignments isn’t to produce a certain amount of text content that sounds a certain way. It’s for students to think, write, write out their thinking and think about their writing, in ways that inform their thinking and writing afterwards.

Gen AI isn’t useful for any part of that.

Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · May 5

About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · May 5

As one working on a big Sappho project, I feel your pain.

Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · May 3

As a rare book dealer I think a lot about which books survive the centuries to continue to be read by subsequent generations.

Among the books of the 20th century I most believe should continue to be read in 200 years: Goodnight Moon.

It is a perfect book.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 29

Got a want match for a rare book and can’t remember why I made the want in the first place: The Rebecca Romney Story.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · Apr 27

We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary with an exhibition of our most beloved artifacts—100 objects selected by the 10 teams who steward the collection.

10 × 10 for 10 is on view until October 2025.

Thu: 1:00pm–8:00pm (free!)
Fri–Sat: 11:00am–6:00pm

Visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/?utm_c...

Photo of a wood-floored gallery with a large floating gray wall filling most of the frame. In the wall are large red vinyl letters: “10 × 10 for 10” in different styles, and “Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.” in smaller text. A stack of posters on a pedestal is in the foreground, and people looking at art in the gallery in the background.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 27

The process is the point :)

Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 26

Eeeee I love this book so much and I am utterly delighted by this

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Apr 25

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

– @sarahweinman.com on the fiction of Josephine Tey
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“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

I wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I…

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 26

And on top of that you were amazing at the event!!

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · Apr 23

There are 5 independent book stores within 2 miles of me—Da Book Joint, Call & Response Books, 57th Street Books, Seminary-Coop, and Powells— and I am looking forward to visiting all of them this Saturday on Independent Bookstore Day.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 23

Thank you!

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · Apr 23

I finished this book over the weekend and it is *such* a great read! For Austen fans especially, but it’s more than that: about book collecting, women writers, and how writers become part of “the canon.”

Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 23

This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

Press image for Author Events Presents, April 24th at 7:00pm, Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis, in person at thr Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, with headshots of both people and an image of the front cover of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · Apr 22

Today in Cleveland!

William Claspy @wclaspy.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us for what promises to be a fantastic event tomorrow. You can come to our library if you are in Cleveland, or fire up the livestream. @rebeccaromney.com on Jane Austen and 18th century women novelists- not to be missed!

Flyer for Rebecca Romney event at CWRU Kelvin Smith Library on April 22, 2025

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Apr 22

Philly & Wilmington people! Are you interested in Jane Austen and the women she read? Have I got a book event for you! 🤩 THIS THURSDAY, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social author talk for Jane Austen's Bookshelf with @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with ME! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

Events: Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austens Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collectors Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER In Conversation with Allie Alvis Ja...

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · Apr 17

Next Thursday, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social to hear @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with little ol’ me about her FANTASTIC new book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf! ✨ Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...