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In 1913, The Times of London printed four letters written by Charlotte Brontë to her former professor Constantin Héger. The letters are part of a correspondence that took place after Charlotte left Brussels, where she had been attending the…

The message at the beginning of the book must have been included for a purpose. This message was given to the reader in order to impact their perspective of the book before they started reading. It was giving them something to think about before…

This group of advertisements is found at the end of the first edition of Little Women, part second found in Manhattan College’s Fales Collection. Two pages of the advertisements list some writings by Jean Ingelow, a fellow nineteenth-century female…

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Stetson was published the same year as An International Episode by Henry James. When examining the social constructs at play in a work of literature, one should consider the world in which the work is…

This artifact is a series of images collected from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. The images themselves are provided by the illustrator Luke Fildes. This book is easily accessible now that penguin prints this book for the masses. But…

A book by 'demonologist' Francis Barrett. It details various occult practices, beliefs, and rituals related to demons, including different runes for summoning specific demons, artistic renderings of said demons, and what purpose they can serve. This…

A two volume compilation of legal records kept during the Salem witchcraft trials. The book is an exhaustive compilation of legal proceedings that includes testimony and results of the trials. The book maintains both the prose and diction of the…

This is a book that records a conversation between author Arthur Conan Doyle and a medium who is speaking to his dead son, Pheneas. The book is written during a time in the Victorian era in which emphasis was put on scientifically proving the…

George Bernard Shaw's "League of Nations" is duct taped to a copy of The Listener newspaper, inside which he had contributed an article. It is taped along with another political leaflet, "Are We Heading For War?". It is fairly similar to the…

This relatively small leaflet is physically taped to Manhattan College's copy of The Listener in which Bernard Shaw wrote "Freedom". It is duct-taped against the side of the paper, and a larger cardboard cover was given to sandwich the two items.…