UNH Speakers Bureau

Sarah Orne Jewett, An American Persephone (Book Title)

 

Program Description:

The tale of Demeter and Persephone, a central myth of Victorian women's culture, is used to interpret the life and work of Sarah Orne Jewett, a 19th-century Maine writer. (University Press of New England 1989)


Speaker:

Sarah Sherman

Sarah Sherman is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and American studies, and consumer culture.

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