The book that changed a museum
The Director of London’s British Museum, Neil MacGregor is to step down from his job at the end of this year. MacGregor has been at the helm of the institution… Read more »
Dickens Museum reopens its doors
In something of an antidote to last week’s disheartening news about the Edgar Allan Poe house, the Guardian reports that the one surviving Charles Dickens home in London has reopened… Read more »
The fall of the House of Poe
While the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum has not actually fallen, it is certainly facing some hard times. Poe’s historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized in the past… Read more »
Beatrix Potter’s picture letters on display in New York
It’s been a couple weeks since I last wrote about Beatrix Potter, so I’m sure people are waiting with bated breath for the next post about her … So I’m… Read more »
John Updike’s home will become a museum
The Reading Eagle have announced that the John Updike Society has finalized plans to buy the author’s childhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania, for $200,000. Updike, who died in 2009, lived… Read more »