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From: angelica carpenter <angelica>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:29:50 -0800
New book inspired by Arne Nixon Center conference
A just-published book celebrates scholarly activity in the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett, published by Scarecrow Publications, Inc., is edited by the Center's Curator, Angelica Shirley Carpenter. The book was inspired by the Center's 2003 international conference, which Carpenter organized, about Frances Hodgson Burnett. This first-ever conference about the famous British-American author brought scholars and fans to Fresno from many parts of the globe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, was one of the most successful and controversial women of her time. Her flamboyant persona and unconventional lifestyle made her a contentious figure in Victorian society, and for generations after her death, her own family refused to acknowledge her. She began her career writing bestselling adult novels with serious themes: working women, abusive marriages, and single motherhood. For many years these books have been overshadowed by the fame of her children's stories, but recently scholars have rediscovered them and they have written about them in this book.
The book begins with the conference's keynote speech, by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, whose biography, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was published in 2004. It ends, as the conference did, with an interview with Penny Deupree, Burnett's great-granddaughter, who has inherited the family archive. In between are essays by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie and Burnett's first non-family biographer, Ann Thwaite. The articles, which are both scholarly and conversational, are in chronological order, based on the publication of Burnett's books or on the production of plays and movies adapted from them. The book, which includes photographs and illustrations, costs $46 and can be ordered from bookstores, online booksellers, or from www.scarecrowpress.com.
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2006 03:29:50 PM CST
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:29:50 -0800
New book inspired by Arne Nixon Center conference
A just-published book celebrates scholarly activity in the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett, published by Scarecrow Publications, Inc., is edited by the Center's Curator, Angelica Shirley Carpenter. The book was inspired by the Center's 2003 international conference, which Carpenter organized, about Frances Hodgson Burnett. This first-ever conference about the famous British-American author brought scholars and fans to Fresno from many parts of the globe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy, was one of the most successful and controversial women of her time. Her flamboyant persona and unconventional lifestyle made her a contentious figure in Victorian society, and for generations after her death, her own family refused to acknowledge her. She began her career writing bestselling adult novels with serious themes: working women, abusive marriages, and single motherhood. For many years these books have been overshadowed by the fame of her children's stories, but recently scholars have rediscovered them and they have written about them in this book.
The book begins with the conference's keynote speech, by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, whose biography, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was published in 2004. It ends, as the conference did, with an interview with Penny Deupree, Burnett's great-granddaughter, who has inherited the family archive. In between are essays by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie and Burnett's first non-family biographer, Ann Thwaite. The articles, which are both scholarly and conversational, are in chronological order, based on the publication of Burnett's books or on the production of plays and movies adapted from them. The book, which includes photographs and illustrations, costs $46 and can be ordered from bookstores, online booksellers, or from www.scarecrowpress.com.
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2006 03:29:50 PM CST
