Stories from the Library: From Brontë to Butler

Name: Stories from the Library: From Brontë to Butler | The Huntington
Start: Sat, Dec 13 2025 - Mon, Jun 15 2026
Location: The Huntington

Exhibitions

Get a behind-the-scenes look at two centuries of the everyday lives of women writers through ephemera, letters, and journals.

A page of lined paper in a spiral notebook with handwritten notes.

Paper with cursive writing, overlapping and written in two directions.

A black and white photo of tall palm trees in rows amid electrical wires.

A handkerchief with scalopped edges and a floral border.

A red hat with feathers, netting, and a ribbon on a black mannequin head.

A printed page of prose, with handwritten notes throughout.

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Charlotte Brontë, Letter to Ellen Nussey, Aug. 9, 1846.

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Eve Babitz, Photograph of Los Angeles palm trees, ca. 1970. Gelatin silver print. Eve Babitz Papers. © Estate of Eve Babitz.

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Mary Hunter Austin’s wedding handkerchief, ca. 1891?. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Patt Morrison’s hat, ca. 1984. Patt Morrison Papers, gift of Patt Morrison. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Hilary Mantel, Final proof corrections to “Written on Our Bodies” for The Guardian, 2003.

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Generous support for the Stories from the Library exhibition series is provided by the Robert F. Erburu Exhibition Endowment. Additional support is provided by The Neilan Foundation, the Steinmetz Foundation, Laura and Carlton Seaver, and the John Brockway Huntington Foundation.

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