"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen ...

Shortly after it begins, Rebecca Romney’s first solo work of nonfiction “becomes something of a mystery novel,” said ...

As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying ... Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the claim that Austen was “the first ...

American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers a lively, personal account of collecting works by, and about, eight of Austen’s favourite women authors, all identifiable from mentions in her ...

But is she really the “first” great English female author? Rebecca Romney has built her career searching for rare books around the world. She joins The Excerpt to detail her path down a 5 ...

In celebration, rare book company Type Punch Matrix will display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...