Book Talk with Barbara Sicherman

"Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women", Barbara Sicherman, author

Sunday, April 25 at 2PM in the Stowe Visitor Center

Women’s book groups are a phenomenon of contemporary American life.  Was it always so?  Learn about the historic transformational power of reading in women’s lives in Barbara Sicherman’s newly-published , “Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women.”  (UNC Press, 2010) 

Come to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center on April 25 for a book signing, celebration and discussion with Sicherman and Katherine Kane, the Stowe Center’s Executive Director. 

Advance praise includes this from Joan Shelley Rubin, (University of Rochester): "… meticulous, elegantly written study… A rewarding exploration of the purposes reading served in the lives of prominent Progressive-era women, it also moves toward recovering the role of print in the lives of less-privileged individuals. We do not have another book like this."

Sicherman is the Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita at Trinity College in Hartford and a West Hartford resident.

Join us for an engaging conversation with Barbara and Katherine, and refreshments.  "Well-Read Lives" will be available for sale in the Museum Store.  Book Talks are free, but please make a reservation to 860.522.9258 ext. 317 or info@stowecenter.org.