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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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 · 14/06/2025

Congratulations! Wonderful news.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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 @ecfriedman.com · 12/05/2025

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 · 05/05/2025

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

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 05/05/2025

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.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 05/05/2025

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

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 03/05/2025

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 · 29/04/2025

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 · 27/04/2025

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 · 26/04/2025

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

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 26/04/2025

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

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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.”

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 23/04/2025

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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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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...

Promo image for Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 03/04/2025

Had a lovely Janeite conversation on the JASNA podcast about Austen’s favorite books! Listen here: jasna.org/austen/podca...

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Austen Chat: Episode 22

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 26/03/2025

JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF is a read that keeps on giving— At Jane's (& @rebeccaromney.com's) recommendation, I've now read BELINDA by Maria Edgeworth, & EVELINA, by Frances Burney— in case you are in the mood for stories in which cads are mercilessly ridiculed & get their comeuppance. #booksky

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 27/03/2025

Absolutely delighted to hear it!

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 23/03/2025

Correct. They’re interesting as bibliographic curiosities but not much sought on the collectible market place.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 16/03/2025

One of my favorite signs that I’m enjoying a nonfiction book: reading it with one finger holding my place in the endnotes, since I know I’ll be flipping back to them every page or two.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 16/03/2025

Sinykin: "Wallace's error was to put too much faith in the ability of his writing to transcend its conditions of production. He overestimated the power of his message and underestimated that of his medium." Phew: yes. Feeling this hard. Not just in publishing, but in my work on, e.g. IG.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 16/03/2025

It’s giving me some gut punches, too, as one who just published a book with the same preoccupations he describes in the case of DFW’s Infinite Jest: how to “engage a reader, much of whose sensibility has been formed by pop culture, without simply becoming more shit in the pop culture machine."

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 16/03/2025

I know I’m literally years late to this party, but I’m finally reading Sinykin’s Big Fiction and it is GREAT. I am rapt.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 15/03/2025

Hard second to these! And to others suggesting Belinda too. Camilla and Belinda are probably especially good for the Emma angle since they each include fantastic characters who are charismatic society women.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 13/03/2025

Agreed about the stacked type — thanks for your input!

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 13/03/2025

When is the last time we talked about the stunning jacket design for the 1946 first edition of Ann Petry’s THE STREET? Let’s talk about it more. I wish I knew the artist.

Front cover of the Street with an orange ombré effect and a portrait of the main character in the top left corner, half on the front and half on the spine

Side view of The Street jacket showing the full view of the portrait of the main character across the spine and front panel

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 12/03/2025

Now on its way to a special collections library: these Meiji era (1886) educational cards introducing Japanese students to major figures of Western history and literature, based on the classic Iroha Karuta matching game. Among those included: Newton, Homer, George Washington, Cleopatra, & Moses.

Selection of cards laid out, including Thomas Becket, Patrick Henry, Lafayette, Caesar, and Peter the Great

Selection of cards laid out, with Elizabeth I, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin visible

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 11/03/2025

Thank you! And very jealous that you got to take 18th c. lit courses with Terry Castle.

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Bailey (she/her) @baileydouglass.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If you’re a Jane Austen fan, and of course you are, you’ve got to get Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. It’s such a fun read, I learned a lot, and it’s been so fun to start digging into the works of the authors she writes about.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 06/03/2025

My surprised/grateful/joyous/exhausted face as I learned during a 2-hour flight delay that Emma Straub recommended my book this morning on the TODAY Show:

Selfie at the airport, with me, happy tired, looking incredulously at the camera

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 06/03/2025

Would 100% attend if I were in Boston.

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Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com · 04/03/2025

💙💙💙 I hope it makes you a Maria Edgeworth fan too!

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