Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

671. Women Making History as Writers of Fictional History and Appropriated Historical Figures

10:15–11:30 a.m., 303, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Session leader: Lynette L. Felber, Indiana Univ.–Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne

1. “Joan of Arc Makes (American) History,” Pamela R. Matthews, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

2. “Echoes of Empire, Voices of the Nation,” Jimia Boutouba, Univ. of California, Riverside

3. “The ‘Morning Star’ of the Nineteenth Century: Women Writers and the Victorian Cult of John de Wycliffe,” Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, State Univ. of New York, Brockport

4. “Gender, History, and the Art of Mutiny: Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters,” Ann-Barbara Graff, Nipissing Univ.

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