Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest To Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
Anyone who thinks there’s no possible connection between Jane Austen and Las Vegas doesn’t know that Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, has, to her credit—if you want to call it that—a significant stretch of airtime as the rare-books specialist on the History Channel’s Pawn Stars.
Judged by some (not me, I’ve seen only clips) as the network’s “second-best reality show behind Jersey Shore,” the let’s-make-an-unfair-deal program and its beached-whale-girthed, marginally legit host family were lucky to have Romney as their resident bibliopole.
