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Gunn Memorial Library Literary Series

  • Gunn Memorial Library and Museum 5 Wykeham Road Washington, CT 06793 USA (map)

THE INCREDIBLE BRIGHTNESS OF BEING: An Emily Dickinson seminar

Session #1

The Soul Selects Her Own Society: The Strange and Lasting Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Required text: The Poems Of Emily Dickinson, Edited by R. W. Franklin (The Belknap Press of Harvard University). Look for it at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington, CT.

Format: Lecture with some discussion

Membership: By registration only. Please call the library for details: (860) 868-7586.

Earlier Event: September 18
Hotchkiss Library Book Group
Later Event: September 25
Bushnell Sage Library Literary Seminary