Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands by Halkyard, Stella
Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands by Halkyard, Stella

Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands

Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in...
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Author: Stella Halkyard
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Language: English
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Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands by Halkyard, Stella

Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands

$414.64
Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands by Halkyard, Stella

Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands

$414.64
Author: Stella Halkyard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta-textual world. How do we read - and what can we read from - a potsherd, a locket, a fragment of papyrus, a gorgeously illuminated medieval manuscript, an envelope, a seemingly ordinary book? Stella Halkyard, one of the library's erstwhile archivists, tells the life stories of some of this great library's previously unsung treasures and provides radical new readings for a few of its acclaimed gems. In a sequence of idiosyncratic and often playful short essays she celebrates the resonance of these objects and their ability to tell stories that range across time and place, from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to John Donne's shroud, eighteenth-century Chinese papermaking, Elizabeth Bishop's letters, plastic surgery in sixteenth-century Italy, the lining of Walt Whitman's hat, and Delia Derbyshire's wartime gas mask. Selected from Halkyard's popular 'Pictures from a Library' and 'Archive Corner' features published in PN Review over the last two decades, these essays have been brought together for the first time and put into productive dialogue with each other.

Author: Stella Halkyard
Publisher: Lives and Letters
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781800174375

About the Author
Stella Halkyard, a dyed in the wool archivist and omnivorous bookworm, has worked in libraries and archives across Manchester since 1984, including: the Portico, Chethams, the Documentary Photography Archive and Manchester Public Libraries. The lion's share of her career, however, has been spent in the John Rylands Library where she cultivated the literary archives and creative arts collections and nurtured their readership and use. She is also currently a Trustee of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
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