The Groton Center, 163 West Main Street, West Groton
\nCo-sponsored with the Groton Public Library<\/p>\n
Program immediately follows brief business meeting These two seemingly contrasting women writers\u2014the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century activist and scintillating conversationalist Margaret Fuller, and the shy 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century poet Elizabeth Bishop, whose eloquence was confined to the printed page\u2014actually have a great deal in common.\u00a0 Most often associated with urban centers or watery coastlines, both writers had formative experiences in inland Massachusetts towns, Groton and Worcester.\u00a0 Both struggled with questions of identity and purpose from childhood, recording moments when realizing that \u201cyou are an\u00a0Elizabeth,<\/i>\u201d or asking \u201cHow is that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller?\u201d struck them like thunderbolts.\u00a0 Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall will illuminate these and other surprising congruities as well as outline the important contributions each woman made to her (and our) world with her work.<\/p>\n Megan Marshall is the author of three biographies:\u00a0The Peabody Sisters<\/i>, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography;\u00a0Margaret Fuller: A New American Life<\/i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction; and\u00a0Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast<\/i>, a finalist for the Christian Gauss Award in Literary Criticism of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.\u00a0 She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College, a past president of the Society of American Historians, and the recipient of the 2022 BIO (Biographers International Organization) Award for \u201ccontributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography\u201d as well as the 2022 Walter G. Harding Distinguished Service Award for \u201cscholarly achievement that furthers the mission of the Henry David Thoreau Society.\u201d (author website)<\/a><\/p>\n This program is free and open to the public thanks to the Groton Commissioners of Trust Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Groton Center, 163 West Main Street, West Groton Co-sponsored with the Groton Public Library Program immediately follows brief business meeting Registration required These two seemingly contrasting women writers\u2014the 19th\u00a0century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15750,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[128],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-15749","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-free","tribe_events_cat-talks","cat_talks"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"1","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1873,1878],"select_theme":[1891,1903,1901],"select_location":[1935,1910],"select_audience":[1964,1966],"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=15749"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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