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Wed, Jun 09
|OLLI UM via ZOOM
Women Authors You’ve Never Heard Of
Women have been writing for as long or longer than men have. Yet the barriers to women expressing themselves through the written word were formidable. We’ll explore how recovering the writing of largely forgotten women authors enriches our understanding of history and culture.
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Time & Location
Jun 09, 2021, 1:00 PM – Jul 14, 2021, 2:45 PM
OLLI UM via ZOOM
About the event
- Week 1: Pray-ers and poets. Hymns by Her
- Week 2: Dear Diary. When Private Reflections and Memoirs (Sometimes) Go Public
- Week 3: Idealists and Ideologues. Women with a Cause – Essays, “belles lettres” and political tracts
- Week 4: Making a Long Story Short. Some Great Short Stories and the Women who Wrote Them
- Week 5: Novel Approaches. Women Novelists of the 17th -19th century
- Week 6: Dramatists and Playwrights. The Play's the Thing
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