This exhibition of Victorian yellowbacks (cheap versions of novels and other works, often with yellow covers) will open with a lecture by Swarthmore College Professor Rachel Buurma, followed by a reception with student posters and refreshments. The exhibition will be on display in the Library throughout the semester.

Professor Buurma’s talk is titled “I wrote as I read: Margaret Oliphant’s Compositional Narration.” It will touch on “yellowbacks and other print formats as part of the context for Oliphant’s ideas about composition and narration.” This will be followed by a period of questions and answers, and then a showing of posters on Victorian yellowbacks produced by Vassar students.

This event is open to the public.

Sponsored by the Library, English Department, and Global Nineteenth-Century Studies Department.