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Victorian Secrets Book Discussion Series Begins this Fall at Hagaman Library

Join Hagaman Memorial Library's Victorian Secrets Book Discussion Series this Fall. Meet author and discussion leader David Garnes as you discuss four great novels of the Victorian period.

Join Hagaman Memorial Library's Victorian Secrets Book Discussion Series. Meet author and discussion leader David Garnes as you discuss four great novels of the Victorian period. You will consider the depiction of women in an age in which women were both worshipped and subjugated. Sponsored by a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council. Copies of the four novels are available to borrow from the library. Call the library at 203-468-3890 to register for the series. Discussion dates and times are listed below.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Monday, September 24 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Monday, October 29 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Monday, November 26 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope Monday, December 10 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Author and facilitator David Garnes is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University. He is the author of many scholarly articles and, in most recent years, of three books: After the War Was Over: Poems of an American Childhood; a book of essays, From My Life: Travels And Adventures; and the forthcoming Waitin' For The Train To Come In, a novel with a World War II setting. He is currently working on a second book of personal essays. David is a longtime house manager/tour guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, and he works at a number of local arts organizations. He speaks frequently in Connecticut on topics of writing, caregiving, local history and volunteering. He has led many book discussions for the Connecticut Humanities Council.

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