Lecture | The Publications of the Hroswitha Club

This talk will focus on the two publications of the Hroswitha Club–Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times and Works, and a Comprehensive Bibliography and Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States–in order to argue that the HC was both more inclusive and more focused in their interests than the record suggests. While they had a limited membership of relatively elite women, their research into medieval women's networks through the figure of Hroswitha and into the laboring woman printer of modern America belies an effort to broaden the scope of women included in histories of print, literature, and the book. Each member of the club became a woman of letters in this process. And while the club claimed to merely "love books," these publications, in addition to the club's library and events held, reveal specific commitments to the woman writer of medieval Europe and the woman printer of modern America. Loving books, in other words, was its own specialization for the Hroswitha Club.

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