Celebrate
the role of reading in the lives of women, as Tompkins County Public Library
hosts Barbara Sicherman for a discussion and signing of her fascinating book
“Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of Women,” November 15
at 6 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.
An author and historian, Sicherman is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values, Emerita, at Trinity College. She is author of “Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters” and “The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880-1917” and co-editor of “Notable American Women: The Modern Period.”
Her latest effort, “Well-Read Lives” chronicles the correlation between adolescent reading and future success by exploring the connections women of the Gilded Age had with books.
From Jane Addams and Alice and Edith Hamilton, who grew up in homes where books were easily accessible, to immigrants like Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen and Mary Antin, who discovered the written word through English-language books they found in settlement homes, “Well-Read Lives” offers intimate and entertaining profiles chronicling how some of history’s most accomplished women lost and found themselves in books.
Sicherman’s program is free and open to the public. Copies of “Well-Read Lives” will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Buffalo Street Books.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
An author and historian, Sicherman is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values, Emerita, at Trinity College. She is author of “Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters” and “The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880-1917” and co-editor of “Notable American Women: The Modern Period.”
Her latest effort, “Well-Read Lives” chronicles the correlation between adolescent reading and future success by exploring the connections women of the Gilded Age had with books.
From Jane Addams and Alice and Edith Hamilton, who grew up in homes where books were easily accessible, to immigrants like Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen and Mary Antin, who discovered the written word through English-language books they found in settlement homes, “Well-Read Lives” offers intimate and entertaining profiles chronicling how some of history’s most accomplished women lost and found themselves in books.
Sicherman’s program is free and open to the public. Copies of “Well-Read Lives” will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Buffalo Street Books.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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