Louisa May Alcott

Hey Gang!
Here are some events sponsored by Etown College on Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women and Little Men).

The Elizabethtown Public Library, with support from Elizabethtown College, has received an American Library Association/National Endowment for the Humanities grant and has organized fall 2011 programming on the theme “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.” Bethleen Bradford of EPL is the project director, and I am the lead scholar. The grant programming is structured around the award-winning documentary by Harriet Reisen and Nancy Porter, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (which has been shown on the PBS series American Masters). Ms. Reisen published a well-received biography of the same name. She will be speaking on the Etown campus in November.

You, your colleagues, and your students are cordially invited to these Alcott events. Please feel free to forward the e-mail and attachment.

· W/19 OCT.--Film screening: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. Brinser Lecture Room in Steinman Hall (Alpha Drive), Elizabethtown College, 7:00 p.m. Parking available on College Ave. and Alpha Dr. and in the Leffler lot.

· SAT/29 OCT.--Jéan-Paul Benowitz, “Louisa May Alcott and the Civil War.” Elizabethtown Public Library Auditorium (lower level), 10:00 a.m. Free and open to the public.

· T/1 NOV. --Kimberly VanEsveld Adams and Meghan FitzGerald, “Gothic: Louisa May Alcott's Thrillers,” Brinser Lecture Room, Steinman Hall (Etown College), 3:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

· TH/10 NOV.--Harriet Reisen, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.” Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center, Etown College, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Funded by an ALA/NEH grant with generous support from the Provost’s Office. Etown Public Library screenings of the documentary by Harriet Reisen and Nancy Porter, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, to be announced.

· T/15 NOV.--Kimberly VanEsveld Adams, “Corsets, (Un)employment, Education: Louisa May Alcott and All Kinds of Reforms,” 7:45 p.m., Bucher Meeting House, Etown College. Free and open to the public.

Yours,

Kimberly VanEsveld Adams

Associate Professor of English

Women and Gender Studies Faculty

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298

adamsk@etown.edu