The Brontës at the Emily Dickinson Museum

An alert from the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA:

Emily Dickinson's Poetry 102
Part of the Big Read. Co-sponsored by the Jones Library.
Tuesdays, May 3, 10, 17
7-9 pm
Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst
A three-part discussion series that takes a thematic approach to Dickinson's poetry.  Attend one, two, or all three sessions!  Despite the title, no previous exposure to Dickinson is required.  All attendees will receive a "Reader's Guide to Emily Dickinson's Poetry" (published by the National Endowment of the Arts) and a booklet of Dickinson's poems.  Advance registration is encouraged; please contact Janet Ryan at 259-3223 or the Jones Library Reference Desk at 259-3096.

The first session is:

May 3
Milton’s Daughters: Echoes of Browning, Rossetti, and the Brontës in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Elizabeth A. Petrino is associate professor of English at Fairfield University, where she teaches American literature, poetry, and gender studies. She is the author of Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: American Women’s Verse, 1820–1885 (UP of New England, 1998) and co-editor with Jocelyn Boryczka of Jesuit and Feminist Education: Intersections in Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century (Fordham UP, forthcoming in 2011). Named a Reese Fellow in American Bibliography and the History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society (2007–8) and elected a member of the board of directors of the Emily Dickinson International Society (2009–11), she has published book chapters and articles on Emily Dickinson and her American female literary peers in The Emily Dickinson Journal, ATQ: 19th-Century American Literature and Culture, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

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