During May 2020, I had the honor to write a guest blog for the Music Division of the Library of Congress to coincide with the publication of Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America. In “Tracing Augusta Browne in the Library of Congress,” I recall my journey across two decades as I investigated different leads within the largest library collection in the world: https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2020/05/tracing-augusta-browne-in-the-library-of-congress/
The Library of Congress “In the Muse Performing Arts Blog” highlights research in music, dance, film, and theater from the rich holdings available through the Performing Arts Reading Room. From maps to manuscripts, and from rare books to reference volumes, the Library of Congress offers many avenues to discover personal details and context for the life of the American musician Augusta Browne (ca. 1820–1882), but the resources of the Music Division will always be paramount.
