Uncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist who lived in Georgetown on Prospect street where the Exorcist House is now, and whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history.
Rose Neal, Author of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Famous Forgotten Nineteenth Century Author will present on Southworth’s advocacy for social progress, will be introduced by Professor Lori Merish from the Department of English and author of Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum U. S. and Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and 19th-C American Literature.
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Murray Room, 5th Floor, Lauinger Library