Night and Morning in Columbus: A Book, and a Family in the South

This exhibit argues that this 1841 American edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Night and Morning shows how global print culture reached early Columbus, Georgia, and how books like this shaped the identity and values of families such as the Fontaines. By looking at its story, its physical wear, and the faint handwriting inside, we can trace how the Victorian novel became part of a Southern household's intellectual life and survived as a material across generations.