When: 11 March - 22 June, weekdays 9am - 5pm, weekends 10am - 4pm
Where: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Level 2, Central
City Library
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
The Romantics: Jane Austen meets Frankenstein is an
exhibition of rare books and manuscripts from the Sir George Grey Special
Collections.
It
covers the period from the late 18th century to the early 19th century when
there was a revolutionary mood in art and literature, and a new emphasis on the
imagination and the emotions.
The two
most popular names in this exhibition are Jane Austen and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Pictured: An illustration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by Lynd Ward.
We will
have on display a first edition (1818) of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey in which
she parodies the excesses of the gothic novel, including the Mysteries of Udolpho,
which is also on show in the form of a first edition from 1795.
Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's later contribution to the genre, here exhibited in a
1934 edition with powerful wood engravings by Lynd Ward.
The
exhibition also features the famous Romantic poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(Lyrical ballads 1798), Byron, Shelley and Keats, Burns and Blake.
There
are important early editions, such as William Blake's America, of which only 17
copies survive, as well as some modern interpretations of famous poems.
In
addition, the exhibition contains original handwritten letters by Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, the scientist and poet Sir Humphry Davy, and
Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. These were all collected by Sir George
Grey.
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