Celebrate All Fairfax Reads!

Celebrate Fairfax County Public Library's annual series: All Fairfax Reads. Fairfax County Public Library is hosting events and a county-wide read of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.

A Discussion of Jane Austen's Legacy

Join us for a keynote presentation on Jane Austen's life and legacy by Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen biography, Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

About Rebecca Romney

Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book company based in Washington, DC. She is the rare books specialist on the HISTORY Channel’s show Pawn Stars, and the cofounder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. She is a generalist rare book dealer, handling works in all fields, from first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks. Romney is the author of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History (with JP Romney) and The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769­–1999. Her work as a bookseller or writer has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, and more. In 2019, she was featured in the documentary on the rare book trade, The Booksellers. She is on the Board of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).

Photo credit: Donnamaria R. Jones

Invite

This program is appropriate for ages 16+. Register for this FREE presentation by clicking on the "Begin Registration" button (below). This presentation is being offered as a virtual event and will not be recorded. A Zoom link will be emailed prior to event.