Posts by Timothy Gress

Capturing Brontë: Collectors, Readers, and the Afterlife of Charlotte Brontë

by Timothy Gress, Coordinator, Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
December 23, 2021

Between 1918 and 1922 New York financier Carl H. Pforzheimer built up a small but noteworthy gathering of materials relating to the novelist Charlotte Brontë.

A Manuscript Mystery: The Fragment Within Browning’s “Colombe’s Birthday”

by Timothy Gress, Coordinator, Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
October 27, 2020

"I wondered: could it be a fragment by Browning himself, somehow neglected by Browning scholars? Might it be the beginnings of a work by someone else? I set myself the task to try to identify just who wrote this curious fragment."

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A Burns Night Celebration: Robert Burns in the Margins

by Timothy Gress, Coordinator, Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
January 25, 2020

Redactions, asterisks and intrigue...

Leigh Hunt at the Library: A Birthday Evaluation

by Timothy Gress, Coordinator, Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
October 19, 2019

Happy 235th Birthday to English poet, journalist, and literary critic Leigh Hunt, born this day in 1784. Though not often remembered for his own writings, Hunt had a major influence on British literature of the 19th century.