Session Details

Wednesday, 30 December

715. The Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Sophia Hawthorne

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Independence Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

Presiding: Jana L. Argersinger, Washington State Univ., Pullman

1. “Sophia Peabody’s Cuba Journal: Slavery Visible and Invisible,” Rita Williams, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

2. “Sophia/Hester and the Lover/Husband,” Patricia Dunlavy Valenti, Univ. of North Carolina, Pembroke

3. “‘With the Eyes That Are Given to Me’: Feminist Transcolonial Poetics in Sophia Peabody’s Cuba Journal,” Ivonne Garcia, Kenyon Coll.

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