[Libri] FW: "The Company of Books": Hampshire Bookshop lecture

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Dear Colleagues,

The following talk, sponsored by Smith and Hampshire Colleges, should be of
great interest. It is but one of a series of events leading up to the
Virginia Woolf Conference at Smith College.

Jim Wald
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> Dear Friends,
> 
> I'd like to pass along the following announcement, for those of you interested
> in the Hampshire Bookshop, or in the culture of women and books in
> 20th-century New England. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the
> Thirteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, to be held this summer at
> Smith College.
> 
> THE COMPANY OF BOOKS:
> Women, Reading, and the Hampshire Bookshop of Northampton, 1916-1971
> Barbara A. Brannon, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
> 
> From its beginnings as one of the first bookstores founded and run by women,
> the Hampshire Bookshop of Northampton, Massachusetts, sought to be the kind of
> "personal bookshop" that brought readers and writers together in a
> stimulating, friendly environment. It also pioneered women's leadership in the
> American book trade, and its dedicated clientele included the common reader as
> well as the college scholar--in a venture that Virginia Woolf and her
> Bloomsbury compatriots would have applauded.
>  Drawing its title from the 1931 book catalog to which Woolf contributed her
> essay "The Love of Reading," the lecture will explore the ways in which one
> independent bookstore became a model for bookwomen but left a legacy far
> beyond its geographic or gender spheres.
>  The audience will have the opportunity to view items from Smith College's
> Hampshire Bookshop Collection, in a welcoming environment surrounded by the
> impressive special collections of the College's Neilson Library.
> 
> Thursday, Mar. 13, 4:00 p.m.
> Mortimer Rare Book Room
> Smith College
> Northampton, Massachusetts
> 
> http://www.smith.edu/woolfconference/Woolf%20Watch.htm
> http://www.smith.edu/woolfconference/
> 
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> 
> Barbara A. Brannon, Ph.D.
> The Publishing Laboratory
> University of North Carolina-Wilmington
> 601 S. College Rd.
> Wilmington NC 28403
> 

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