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Weekends Television Schedule visit us online at booktv. Org. Stephen grant talks about henry and emily folger, a collection of shakespeare books and manuscripts they started collecting in 1885 and creation of the Folger Shakespeare library. This was toasted by politics and prose bookstore in washington d. C. Is just under an hour. Thank you, justin, and thank you, politics and prose. Authors are so lucky politics and prose is here for them. Biographers seek to capture a life. In this case it was two lives. I rode the dual biography of henry and emily hamlet. A couple from brooklyn. Henry and Emily Norton Folger were born in the 1850s when Many American families have only two books in their library. The bible and shakespeare. They died childless in the 1930s. I searched in vain for someone who remembered them. The closest i got was an octogenarian who had attended the dedication of the Folger Library in 1932 on shakespeares birthday in presence of president and mrs. Herbert hoover. Id b

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