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From: angelica
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:44:54 -0800
Dear all, Could not email on the last or first days of the month, so I am sending this a day late. Best wishes, Angelica Carpenter.
PRESS RELEASE November 1, 2002
California State University, Fresno Henry Madden Library 5200 N. Barton Ave. M/S ML 34 Fresno Ca 93740?14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angelica Carpenter, Curator Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature Phone (559) 278?16 E-mail angelica at csufresno.edu
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT CONFERENCE
The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature will sponsor the ?Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden Conference,? to be held April 25', 2003, on the campus of California State University, Fresno. This is the first conference ever to be held about the famous author of The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. The event is attracting international attention as sixteen proposals for talks have been received from academics in three countries. Co-sponsors include the Fresno Bee, the Fresno County Public Library, Fresno Pacific University, and the Department of English at California State University, Fresno.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England. She helped to bring the golden age of children?s literature to America when she moved to Tennessee as a teenager. Her first books, and most of her 65 novels, were written for adults. These books, with subjects like working women, single motherhood, abusive marriages, and the interaction of cultures, are sparking new, international interest. A new biography, with an emphasis on Burnett?s adult novels, written by Vassar Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, will be published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press. Dr. Gerzina will be a keynote speaker at the conference.
Burnett fought and won a landmark copyright case in England, winning the praise of many famous authors. Her personal life was controversial by Victorian standards. She supported her family with her writing, often leaving her young sons with their father for long periods. She smoked; she worked with men, unchaperoned; she divorced her husband; and she married a younger man and later left him. Her daughter and granddaughter called her a disgrace to the family, but her great-granddaughter, Penny Deupree, takes pride in her famous ancestor. Penny Deupree will also be a speaker at the conference.
Other conference speakers will include Burnett?s principal biographer, Ann Thwaite, author of Waiting for the Party; Phyllis Bixler, author of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Twayne?s English Authors Series); Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who teaches children?s literature at Cornell and the author of Don?t Tell the Grownups, a collection of essays on children?s literature; Michael Cart, librarian, teacher, Booklist columnist, and author of From Romance to Realism, a history of young adult literature; and Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden, a biography of Burnett for young people.
The conference will include three tracks, for academics, teachers and librarians (optional university credit will be available), and for children who accompany their parents to Fresno. It will conclude with brunch in a beautiful Fresno garden. Some participants will stay at the Piccadilly Inn?University, just across the street from the campus, and some conference meetings will be held at the hotel.
Plans for the conference, including a Web site, are still under development. To see the most current Web site, use Google or a similar search engine to search the term ?Frances Hodgson Burnett conference.?
Received on Mon 02 Dec 2002 02:44:54 PM CST
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:44:54 -0800
Dear all, Could not email on the last or first days of the month, so I am sending this a day late. Best wishes, Angelica Carpenter.
PRESS RELEASE November 1, 2002
California State University, Fresno Henry Madden Library 5200 N. Barton Ave. M/S ML 34 Fresno Ca 93740?14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angelica Carpenter, Curator Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature Phone (559) 278?16 E-mail angelica at csufresno.edu
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT CONFERENCE
The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature will sponsor the ?Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden Conference,? to be held April 25', 2003, on the campus of California State University, Fresno. This is the first conference ever to be held about the famous author of The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. The event is attracting international attention as sixteen proposals for talks have been received from academics in three countries. Co-sponsors include the Fresno Bee, the Fresno County Public Library, Fresno Pacific University, and the Department of English at California State University, Fresno.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England. She helped to bring the golden age of children?s literature to America when she moved to Tennessee as a teenager. Her first books, and most of her 65 novels, were written for adults. These books, with subjects like working women, single motherhood, abusive marriages, and the interaction of cultures, are sparking new, international interest. A new biography, with an emphasis on Burnett?s adult novels, written by Vassar Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, will be published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press. Dr. Gerzina will be a keynote speaker at the conference.
Burnett fought and won a landmark copyright case in England, winning the praise of many famous authors. Her personal life was controversial by Victorian standards. She supported her family with her writing, often leaving her young sons with their father for long periods. She smoked; she worked with men, unchaperoned; she divorced her husband; and she married a younger man and later left him. Her daughter and granddaughter called her a disgrace to the family, but her great-granddaughter, Penny Deupree, takes pride in her famous ancestor. Penny Deupree will also be a speaker at the conference.
Other conference speakers will include Burnett?s principal biographer, Ann Thwaite, author of Waiting for the Party; Phyllis Bixler, author of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Twayne?s English Authors Series); Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who teaches children?s literature at Cornell and the author of Don?t Tell the Grownups, a collection of essays on children?s literature; Michael Cart, librarian, teacher, Booklist columnist, and author of From Romance to Realism, a history of young adult literature; and Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden, a biography of Burnett for young people.
The conference will include three tracks, for academics, teachers and librarians (optional university credit will be available), and for children who accompany their parents to Fresno. It will conclude with brunch in a beautiful Fresno garden. Some participants will stay at the Piccadilly Inn?University, just across the street from the campus, and some conference meetings will be held at the hotel.
Plans for the conference, including a Web site, are still under development. To see the most current Web site, use Google or a similar search engine to search the term ?Frances Hodgson Burnett conference.?
Received on Mon 02 Dec 2002 02:44:54 PM CST
