Bizarrely, today in my Facebook feed a “timeline memory” post popped up from 4 years ago, sharing a Loyola Magazine story that describes research on the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore done by Courtney Cousins ’14 for a course I taught on the History of the Novel in the US in Fall 2013. Courtney’s project was the genesis of this semester’s class. I thought you all might enjoy this bit of hyper-local history.

And to complete the circle, the author of the Loyola Magazine article, Brigid Hamilton, took one of the first seminars I taught here at Loyola … back in 2003 or 2004, I think. It was on the History of the Book in America, a pre-cursor to the History of the Novel in the US class that Courtney took in 2013.

History repeats itself, as they say!