Romance — from the blog
Essays, reading notes and reviews from the romance shelves of the collection.
A Cathedral Courtship: A Romance Told in Two Voices
Kate Douglas Wiggin's slight, sharp epistolary romance follows a young American woman, her High Church aunt, and a persistent architect through England's cathedral towns.
Romeo and Juliet: The Text Before the Polish
A famous love story preserved with its printers' quirks intact — bawdy, quick, and stranger on the page than most readers expect.
The Princess Aline: A Chase Across Europe for a Face
Richard Harding Davis follows a young New Yorker who falls for a princess he has never met and sets out to be introduced.