Call for Nominations: Stowe Society Officers

The Stowe Society requests nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor. Members should submit nominations by email to ryan.cordell@snc.edu by June 15, 2011. Here is the information about officers from the the society’s bylaws:
B. The President will serve as the head of the Executive Board.
C. The Vice President will serve as the [...]

New Recording: “Eliza Crossing the River”

One of our readers, Neal Edelberg, recently sent the Stowe Society a recording of “Eliza Crossing the River,” a song inspired by Stowe’s poem. We’ve included the song here. If you like the song, you can purchase it (and support the composer and artists).
“Eliza Crossing the River”
Description: A Song Inspired by Stowe’s Poem
Composition and Music: [...]

Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home

New York, NY – Peter Lang Publishing, USA announces the forthcoming publication of Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home, by Elif S. Armbruster. (ISBN 978-1- 4331-1249-2 | HC | $89.95 | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Vol. 105) Expected date of publication: 5/1/11
Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at [...]

HBS at 200 Program Draft

Thursday, 23 June 2011
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Registration and Coffee: (Hawthorne-Longfellow Library)
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Stowe and Maine
Chair:  Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England/Maine Women Writers Collection

Rita Bode, Trent University, “A Meeting of Two Harriets”
Denise Kohn, Baldwin-Wallace College, “Tyranny and Trials: Portrayals of the Unhappy Marriage in Stowe and Curtis Bullard”
Marianne Noble, American University, “Candor Plus [...]

Registration for Housing at HBS at 200 Now Open

The housing registration site is now open for Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200:  Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century.  Thank you for your patience while we worked to have housing and meal options that would be as flexible and affordable as possible.  The link to register for housing, meals, and the banquet is [...]

Stowe at 200 Conference: Housing Info Coming soon

Housing registration for the Stowe at 200 conference at Bowdoin College will be available here shortly. We hope to have the link up in the next week or so.

Registration open for Stowe at 200 Conference

Registration is now available for the conference Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200: Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 23-25 June 2011.
On site registration will begin on Thursday, June 23rd at 9:15 a.m. The first session will begin on Thursday at 10:45 a.m. The conference will end on the night [...]

Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200 Update

[ June 23, 2011 to June 25, 2011. ] The Stowe Society’s bicentennial conference at Bowdoin College, 23-25 June 2011, will feature a keynote address by Susan Belasco entitled “Stowe in Her Time and Ours” on Friday night.  The keynote will follow a banquet featuring a lobster bake.

Registration will be available in early February through the Stowe Society website; there will be a link [...]

UTC Reading Group at the Rosenbach

The Rosenbach Museum and Library asked me to share this upcoming reading group with our members:
Rosenbach Museum & Library Reading Groups: Your search for scholarly, invigorating Reading Groups is finally over.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Wednesdays, March 23 & 30, April 13 & 27, May 18 & 25.
6:00 – 7:45 pm at the Rosenbach Museum & Library
Harriet Beecher [...]

CFP: Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200

UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 1, 2010
Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200
Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
22-25 June 2011
Sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
On the bicentennial of her birth, the Stowe Society announces a conference celebrating Harriet Beecher Stowe—her life and works—at Bowdoin College, where she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. [...]