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:

• 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 online or visit in-person. The exhibition is open to all visitors with proof of vaccination and booster.