Author and Editor

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JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF

Rebecca’s latest book, forthcoming February 2025 from Simon & Schuster

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Printer’s Error

Irreverent stories from book history

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Projections

An anthology of speculative fiction

Selected Articles

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"This Science Fiction Novelist Created A Feminist Language From Scratch"

Can a language be designed specifically to express the thoughts and feelings of women?

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"The Art of the Painstaking Sherlock Recreation"

Visiting 221B Baker Street in Pennsylvania: an incredible recreation of the London flat of Sherlock Holmes.

"The Big Sleep Test"

On Rebecca’s love-hate relationship with Chandler's booksellers as a woman in rare books.

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“New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book…”

A tour of children’s books that reveal cultural hopes and fears.