Exhibit: "500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves"

The exhibition was guest curated by Vanessa Braganza, Joani Etskovitz, and Katherine Horgan, PhD candidates in the Department of English, Harvard University.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

• A copy of Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems autographed by the author
• A mysterious ownership inscription by a medieval woman named "Johanna" in a copy of Jerome's Vitas Patrum
• Mary Wroth's copy of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, bearing her cryptic monogram
• A first edition of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry collection, Riot
• George Eliot's notebook "quarry" in preparation for writing Middlemarch

Explore the Exhibition online at https://vmbraganza.wixsite.com/women-authors

Plan on visiting the exhibition in-person? Please note that:

• The exhibition will be temporarily closed on Thursday, December 16 from 3pm to 5pm and, for Winter Recess, from Friday, December 17 at 5pm, reopening on Monday, January 3, 2022 at 9am.
• All visitors to exhibits at Houghton Library age 12 or older will be required to present Harvard ID, or proof of COVID-19 vaccination along with a photo ID for those age 17 and older.
• Minors under the age of 17 may visit exhibits when accompanied and supervised by an adult who has satisfied the requirements of the Harvard Library Vaccination Requirement Policy.
• Exhibit visitors younger than 12 years old do not need to provide proof of vaccination or identity but must adhere to all other visitor policies and must be accompanied and supervised at all times by an adult who has satisfied the abovementioned requirements.

More information: https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/500-years-women-authors-authorizing-themselves