"Strong Women at The Gables" Lecture Series continues

May 7, 2012

Contact: Anita Blackaby, Executive Director, 978-744-0991 ext. 199

Press Release

For immediate release.

Re: “Strong Women at The Gables” Lecture Series at The House of the Seven Gables.

The next lecture, by Dr. Lucinda L. Damon-Bach will take place May 16, 2012 at 7pm and is entitled “Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Literary Legacy.” Admission is free to students and faculty of Salem State University, with a suggested donation for others of $10 for members of The Gables, $15 for non-members.

Presented by Dr. Damon-Bach, Professor of English at Salem State University and co-editor of Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives. Internationally acclaimed in the 19th century and admired by her U.S. contemporaries, Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s life and works inspired male and female readers alike. This lecture will focus on Sedgwick’s early novels, friendships, and interactions with fellow authors (including James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne), exploring her role as a founder of American literature.

Damon-Bach earned her Ph.D. in English, at the State University of New York at Buffalo and has received many honors including the National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship. Damon-Bach is currently at Salem State University, but has also taught at Boston College and was a preceptor for the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University.

Her second co-edited book, Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain, with Beth L. Lueck and Brigitte Bailey, is forthcoming from the University Press of New England in July 2012. In addition to publishing articles on other nineteenth-century American authors, Damon-Bach has helped to organize many conferences on Sedgwick and her contemporaries, including “Transatlantic Women,” at the Rothermere American Institute of the University of Oxford, U. K., which spawned her most recent book. She has delivered a great number of presentations across the United States, from Hawaii and California to Michigan and Massachusetts.

For more information, please call The Gables at 978-744-0991.

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