News

October 9, 2023
Read the newest Scholars’ Progress Blog post “Deconstructing an Extra-Illustrated Book” by LWL Fellow Jane Wessel (‘14 and ‘23), Assistant Professor of English, US Naval...
July 19, 2023
The fabulous “Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women,” curated by Hope Saska & Cynthia Roman, first presented in 2015 at the LWL & in 2016 at the University of...
July 3, 2023
Check out Neil Guthrie’s account of “Reading Horace Walpole” in the latest post on our Scholars’ Progress blog. We’re still in awe of his amazing feat of having...
June 23, 2023
A recording of the lecture, “Horace Walpole and Philanthropy in Eighteenth-Century England”, given by Dr. Andrew Rudd (University of Exeter, UK) at the Lewis Walpole Library...
May 2, 2023
The  Library is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 Fellowship and Travel Grant awards. To see the list of receipients, visit our Fellowship Awards page.
a short-statured figure with knees together, one hand raised in an oratorial gesture, the other holding a bag over his shoulder stands on a three-legged stool addressing an older man in a wig who leans down over a sign, a group of men sit on the left.
May 2, 2023
In this entry for the Scholars’ Progress blog, Miriam Wallace recounts her experience researching “ ‘speaking subjects’—that is, considering how the visual record...
February 13, 2023
Postponed: Date tba - 10:30 am - 3:00 pm The Lewis Walpole Library is pleased to host a collections-based seminar for graduate students around the exhibition Knight Errant of...