4: My time at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Harry Potter’s library!

In 1993, I had the privilege of doing research at four libraries in Great Britain. One was the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. I was geeking out on 17th century poet Katherine Philips. #englishmajor The Bodleian was used as the library set in the Harry Potter movies. I was very excited to find out that theContinueContinue reading “4: My time at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Harry Potter’s library!”

Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford

Katherine Philips has a letter in the archives of the Bodlein library of Oxford College. My modern British women’s literature class went to the town of Oxford one week and I realized I would be in very close proximity to an original document of Philips’s. I hadn’t seen her handwriting in person yet, something sheContinueContinue reading “Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford”