Zoe Klippert will discuss her book, An Englishwoman in California: the letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76. Mrs. Hubback was a niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself. She moved to Oakland in 1871 and set up house with her son Edward while he commuted to San Francisco by ferry to his job at a wheat brokerage. Her letters home to her eldest son John tell of her day to day life and give a perspective on America and its inhabitants that is often amusing and always insightful. The landscape she describes and travels in will be recognizable to present day readers.
Zoe Klippert is a freelance editor and longtime Moraga resident.
