Members-Only Tour: Paper Jane at the Grolier Club
6–7:30pm
Female Trailblazers: A Special Members-Only Series
In honor of the exhibition Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple, Poster House members are invited to explore the creative work of female trailblazers both past and present.
This tour takes place at Grolier Club located at 47 East 60th Street. New York, NY 10022.
Paper Jane marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen (1775–1817). Although Austen is among the best-known authors in the English language after Shakespeare, this was not always the case. When she died at the early age of 41, she was relatively unknown, having published only four novels anonymously (“by a Lady”). Yet her wit and biting social commentary have endured to captivate and inspire across generations.
The exhibition is organized chronologically, measuring the novelist’s growing fame at fifty-year intervals (1825, 1875, 1925, 1975, and 2025) through a kaleidoscopic mix of 110 objects, including rare first editions, manuscripts, popular reprintings, movie posters, illustrations, theater playbills, and other paper ephemera.
Accessibility Note: As this is an off-site event, masks and clear masks are available free of charge with prior notification. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is also available upon advanced request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event-related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.