The Sitting Room Library

Sitting Room Library

The Sitting Room Library is devoted to the collection and curation of interdisciplinary, international, and cross-genre literature, poetry, and art by and about women. Seeking to restore the history of women’s achievements and preparing for the challenges in the future, the Sitting Room Library is committed to fostering research, writing projects, and programs for students, interns, independent scholars, and common readers through grants, internships, fiscal sponsorship, and publishing opportunities. The Sitting Room Library welcomes visitors of all genders, ages, backgrounds for reading, learning, conversing, contemplating, writing, and exploring this unique collection of books and archives in our peaceful indoor and outdoor spaces offering refuge and renewal.

The Sitting Room Library is a non-profit charitable corporation with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. Tax ID: 68-0012414.

Here is some of what the Sitting Room has to offer:

Books aplenty by and about women, LITERATURE, ART, POETRY, ESSAYS, WORLD LIT and oh heck, lots else.
The underutilized treasure of the ARCHIVES, with files that vary from the slender to the overflowing on women writers from A to Z,
An oddly fascinating — and beautifully organized — collection of OBITS of women, local and farnwide as well as from the Overlooked series in the NYTimes
Ever changing exhibits which vividly spotlight strong points of the SR collections
Space just to do your own too long postponed work + of course, coffee/tea/and wifi

ANNOUNCING A NEW PUBLICATION FROM THE SITTING ROOM library!

A Luminous Halo: Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf

Cita Press and The Sitting Room Library present A Luminous Halo: a new collection of seven essential short works by Virginia Woolf, brought together in one volume for the first time. Curated and introduced by the Sitting Room's “Woolf Wall” curator, JoAnn Borri; cover by Cita’s Mariana Matos.

The book is free online in web and downloadable formats at citapress.org. A paperback version, which includes the addition of the essay “Professions for Women,” is coming soon!

Learn more about how the project came together via the Cita Press Bulletin.

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Here is some of what the Sitting Room has to offer:

ANNOUNCING A NEW PUBLICATION FROM THE SITTING ROOM library!

A Luminous Halo: Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf

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