Domestic Violence and the Rise of the Novel Presented by Christopher Johnson. From an early age, we are taught that reading is good. But what happens when the stories that we read reinforce dangerous ideas? This talk will explore the similarities between novels of courtship and marriage and the horrific dynamics of domestic violence. With … Read more
Women Taking Charge: The Rise of the Novel and Resistant Reading Presented by Christopher Johnson. One of the most interesting dynamics of eighteenth-century literature is the emergence of women writers. This talk will examine how early women novelists took the stories they inherited from male authors and retold them in ways that were quietly subversive. … Read more
Gamechanger: The Life and Writing of Julia Mood Peterkin Presented by Ann-Chadwell Humphries. Julia Peterkin was a white woman who wrote about Gullah people living on her family’s plantation out of a desire to honor and preserve their culture. She was shunned by white Southerners for “betraying her race” but became accepted by Harlem Renaissance … Read more
Who Knew? Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman in South Carolina during The Civil War Presented by Ann-Chadwell Humphries. In 1863, both women were in South Carolina’s Lowcountry—Barton provided supplies and medical care for Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Fort Waggoner with Massachusetts’s 54th Regiment. Tubman, a formerly enslaved woman, ran reconnaissance and … Read more
Women in Reconstruction: The Lives of Susie King Taylor, Charlotte Forten, and Laura Towne Presented by Suzie Parker Devoe. Susie King Taylor escapes bondage at the age of fourteen; Charlotte Forten, an educated teacher from Philadelphia, boards a steamship, as does Laura Towne, a Boston medical school graduate. All three end up in Beaufort and … Read more
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