Greetings, gentle reader! I’m not 100% sure what’s happening in the background of the letter G, but clearly she is not escaping death despite her status. A lesson for tyrants everywhere, methinks. But on sunnier thoughts, I completed the letter G!
Things I learned from G:
- I should not have been surprised at how many institutional libraries are named after people named George, and yet here we are.
- I will also need to spend some time in Germany, because as Norbert Schurer noted, the Germans were seriously fans of Lennox and published possibly the most translations/non-British editions of her work of any country, during her lifetime at least. There are also multiple German editions of her plays, which is really exciting.
- Most unusual libraries on the list: the Tyron Palace library in North Carolina, and Gladstone’s library in the UK. Like, I am so excited to make that trip! And the volume they have is one of her harder works to find — her translation of Meditations and Penitent Prayers by the Duchess de la Valliere.
I have no reason to suspect that I will keep up this streak and finish H in August, though I will make progress. For one, I’ve got gallbladder surgery scheduled for the first week in August, and other than that, it’s the run up to the semester. Also, H has a lot going on with it — some big collections in there.
Number of libraries confirmed: 207
Number of libraries entered into the database: 2
Number of extant copies confirmed: 746
Lennox Bibliography Project 