SHARP News

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This is the Autumn 2001 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP; SCHOLARLY EDITING; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; PRIZES; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP REPORTS. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARP Student Essay Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARPWeb.org, by Patrick Leary (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Leiden Centre for the Book, by Adriaan van der Weel (ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP) (pp. 1-3); The Child Writer and the Juvenilia Press, by Juliet McMaster (SCHOLARLY EDITING) (pp. 3-4); The Versatile Text: New Histories of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 19-21 April 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); The New Information Order, University of Edinburgh, 21-23 March 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Borders and Crossings III: An International Conference on Travel Writing, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century, American Printing History Association Twenty-sixth Annual Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, 19-21 October 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 5-6); Inaugural Colloquium for the European Society for Textual Scholarship, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, 22-23 November 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 6); Printing Historical Society Conference 2002, Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 6-7); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships: 2002-2003 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 7); Justin Winsor Prize for Library History Essay (PRIZES) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (PRIZES) (p. 8); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2001-2002, Edinburgh Univ. Library (LECTURES AND COURSES) (pp. 8-9); Toronto Centre for the Book Programme 2001-2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); The Reader Revealed: New Folger Exhibition Highlights Renaissance Reading Habits, Folger Shakespeare Library (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); SHARP at Colonial Williamsburg (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Book Studies at SHARP, by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 11); SHARP at ASECS, by Eleanor Shevlin (AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES) (p. 11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Nicholas Dew, Hannah Thompson, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Alexandra Gillespie (pp. 11-14); Treasurer's Report, by Robert Patten (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16); Membership Report, by Barbara A. Brannon (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16).