The Lost Voice of Mary L. Booth
March 10, 2021 |
Mary Booth knew everyone who was anyone in her day–writers, statesmen, poets, artists. She was Secretary of the Women’s Rights Convention with Susan B. Anthony, she wrote the first History of the City of New York in 1859, and was the founding editor of Harper’s Bazar. She even had a hand in bringing the Statue of Liberty to New York City.
Renowned and respected, she moved in intellectual and reform circles from Boston to Hartford, Brooklyn to New York. She went to Washington during the Civil War to write for the Union cause and was a liaison between the abolitionists of France and the U.S. Her literary salon attracted the top thinkers of the city.
Writer and editor Tricia Foley brings Mary Booth alive in this vibrant virtual program, filled with deeply researched pieces that follow Booth from Brooklyn to New York, Boston, Washington DC and Paris, and her correspondence with contemporaries Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott and even President Abraham Lincoln.
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Online Via Zoom |
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Landmark West |
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