SHARP News

SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) (1998) SHARP News 7(4):pp. 1-16.

Abstract

This is the Autumn 1998 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY; TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE; BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS; MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROJECT COMPLETED AT BROWN; NEW CENTRE TO MAP 18TH CENTURY LONDON BOOK TRADE; CONFERENCE REPORTS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS AND LECTURES; WEBWATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY, by Leslie Howsam (pp. 1-2); TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE, by Maureen Bell (pp. 2-4); BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS, by Barbara A. Brannon (pp. 4-5); Annual Conference on the History of the Provincial Book Trde in Britain; Postgraduate Conference on the History of the Book (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 5-7); Library History Round Table; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; American Literature Association; Western Journalism Historians Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Annual Conference on Book Trade History; Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 8); Department of English at the University of Otago (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 8); American Historical Association convention (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 8-9); Scottish Centre for the Book at Napier University; Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh Fall 1998 Seminar Programme (SEMINARS AND LECTURES) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by Maureen Bell, Elizabeth Hagglund, Heidi Thomson, Alexis Weedon, Rosemary E. Johnsen, Valerie Edden, Linda Dryden (pp. 10-15).