SHARP News

Abstract

This is the Spring 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: GUEST COMMENT; LETTERS; RESOURCES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; EXHIBITIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Post-Colonial Reflections on the Late Victorian Fiction Business, by Elizabeth Morrison (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-4); From London to St. Louis: The Contents of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by James E. Tierney (RESOURCES) (pp. 5-6); The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by Joseph Chaves (RESOURCES) (pp. 6-7); Study Meeting on the City and the Book, Florence, Italy, 30 May-1 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century, Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, 14-16 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Cambridge Project for the Book Trust New Colloquia, London, UK, 8 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Women Editing Periodicals (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Remembering Don McKenzie, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 12-14 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library, 1750-1850, Gronigen and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); SHARP 2001 Ninth Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 9-10); Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 2002-2003, Cambridge University Library (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 10); History of the Book in Latvia, by Peter Mitham (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 10-11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Kathryn Sutherland, Ronald Huebert, Marija Dalbello, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Genelle Gertz-Robinson, Paul Morgan (pp. 11-15); Book Award: George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, by Ezra Greenspan (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Election (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).