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    • Byron Treasure Found — The Independent

      Posted at 9:19 am by Laura, on October 29, 2012

      Byron treasure found in gift to used bookshop — The Independent — Paul Gallagher

      Now a donation to the second-hand bookshop at Harewood House, in Yorkshire, has provided a unique insight into the Leigh family history and Augusta’s place in one of the biggest scandals to rock Georgian society. Although condemned to poverty for the last 33 years of her life, Augusta, the only daughter of Amelia Osborne and John “Mad Jack” Byron, the poet’s father, retained a passion for reading. Her rediscovered literary treasures, inscribed by Augusta and members of her family, belonged to a woman in her 80s who had had them for 40 years without realising their provenance. She acquired the books with a London house in the 1970s Ω the bookshelves were too large to move, so the seller left them, and their contents, behind.

      Volunteers at the bookshop were intrigued by an inscription in The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, reading: “Augusta Leigh, St James’ Palace.”

      “That raised my eyebrows,” said Audrey Kingsnorth, the Harewood volunteer who led the research. “I had no idea who Augusta was… That’s when I started looking into the family and saw the [Byron] connection.”

      I think the funny part is that the donor was so excited about what the volunteers told her that she donated more rare books (Lilliputian books, small volumes to show off printers’ ability).

      Posted in books, Link, Update Post | 0 Comments | Tagged authors, books, genre: classics, genre: gothic, genre: poetry, history, news, personal
    • 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced – NYT

      Posted at 2:28 pm by Laura, on April 16, 2012

      2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced – New York Times

      The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes, celebrating achievement in newspaper and online journalism, literature, nonfiction and musical composition, were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York. The prizes, given annually since 1917, are awarded in 21 categories.

      No fiction winner, but there is a nonfiction winner, poetry winner, and a biography winner. Even better: the poetry winner came from an independent press!

      Posted in books, Link, publishing | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: nonfiction, genre: poetry, news, newspaper, publishing
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