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Let us introduce you to some of the most infamous female authors you’ve never heard of who carved out cultural spaces for themselves. Our challenge to you: Remember their names. Share their stories. Rewrite history.
Highlights include:
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A copy of Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems autographed by the author
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A mysterious ownership inscription by a medieval woman named "Johanna" in a copy of Jerome's Vitas Patrum
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Mary Wroth's copy of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, bearing her cryptic monogram
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A first edition of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry collection, Riot
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George Eliot's notebook "quarry" in preparation for writing Middlemarch
Explore online or visit in-person. The exhibition is open to all visitors with proof of vaccination and booster.