Exhibition curator Julia King (Rare Books Librarian) discusses her role in the exhibition “‘Her booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books at Lambeth Palace Library”, which runs from 1 July - 21 November 2024.
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This exhibition highlights material owned, written, commissioned, and translated by women during the long early modern period. It celebrates the ways in which women and their books were an integral part of England’s devotional, intellectual, and bibliographical cultures. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, the exhibition examines the production and use of books for personal and spiritual practices; books as a statement of power and piety; the development of the commercial trade in books; books as a site to demonstrate women’s intellectual ability; and the material evidence of women’s book ownership.
Items on display include: medieval manuscripts written by the sisters of Syon Abbey on the cusp of the Reformation; Elizabeth I’s newly identified translation of Tacitus; correspondence from a future Archbishop of Canterbury about Jane Austen; and first editions of the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. They are displayed alongside other works related to known and unknown women from our collections.
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No gloves were worn while filming this video and it is advised that white gloves are not used for handling rare books. See the British Library’s blog post ‘White Gloves or Not White Gloves’ to read why: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscri...
Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is one of England’s oldest public libraries, and holds a collection dating from the 9th century to the present. It is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England and hosts free exhibitions and events which are open to all.
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