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Storyteller highlights Harriet Beecher Stowe’s role in ending slavery
TribLocal - ElmhurstThough she stood only five-feet tall, author, mother and housewife Harriet Beecher Stowe is credited with putting a face on the scourge of slavery through …... -
Hartford
The Hartford CourantORIGINS: Settled in 1633 as a Dutch trading post called House of Hope. Founded in 1635 by a group of settlers from Massachusetts led by the Rev. Thomas Hooker. NAME: Originally called Newtown, it was named Hartford in 1637 after Hertford, England. DID...Tags: Old State House, Connecticut, Connecticut River, Education, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Fantasy Xmas shopping for book lovers: Christie's droolworthy auction
Jacket CopyLooking for just the right gifts for the book lovers in your life? Today, in two auctions, Christie's is auctioning some rare and stunning literary artifacts. Cormac McCarthy's typewriter is only the beginning; there are first editions and letters and....... -
Cormac McCarthy's $254,500 typewriter
Jacket CopyCormac McCarthy's typewriter sold at auction today for 254,500 bones, more than 12 times the estimated cost of $15,000-$20,000. And the thing barely works! Functionality isn't the point, of course: Provenance is. It's notable that McCarthy has written all... -
Art review: Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects
Culture Monster"Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence," the great American writer James Baldwin observed in 1953, "and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever." An African American living in... -
Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America
Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...Tags: Death, Norman Mailer, Colleges and Universities, Philip Roth, Culture
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Closeup On Litchfield
The Hartford CourantHOW IT GOT ITS NAME: From Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. Local historians have concluded that the added "T" was the result of a clerical error. ORIGINS: Originally called Bantam by the Indians, the area was settled in 1719 when a group from...Tags: The New York Times, Ethan Allen, Susan Saint James, Colleges and Universities, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers
From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...Tags: Death, Justice System, History, England, Willa Cather
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Historical novel looks at a divided Beecher family
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: The Hartford CourantHARRIET AND ISABELLA By Patricia O'Brien Touchstone, 320 pages, $25 Imagine, for a moment, a family that so enthralls the country that its members' every move is chronicled by the media. Think reformist Kennedys, stalwart Bushes and add authors of...Tags: Death, Family, Abraham Lincoln, Fiction, Martha Stewart
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On the trail of 'Ramona' in California
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Ventura, Riverside, and San Diego Counties -- Why, you may ask, are we rushing north on Interstate 5 and veering east on California 126 into the Santa Clara Valley? Why are we pulling off the road by a fruit stand and slipping into the...Tags: Death, Tour Operations Industry, Minority Groups, Walnuts, History
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'Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America' by Jay Parini
Jay Parini's knowledgeable analysis of key texts that have formed Americans' ideas about themselves and their nation, "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America," would make an excellent starting point for a college course. The author makes...Tags: Booker T. Washington, David Brooks, Colleges and Universities, Plymouth, Education
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Underrated destinations recommended by Times readers
Nature in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas. Art in a deep Polish salt mine. A friendly Wisconsin town. A hike with views of the Tasmanian coast. Readers have spanned the globe and discovered adventure, history and in many places, peace. Here are some of their...Tags: Armenia, Uruguay, Salt, Turkey, Lion (animal)
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