Yours Everlovingly: The relationships of Amelia B. Edwards and Anne Hampton Brewster
Event Details
Yours Everlovingly: The relationships of Amelia B. Edwards and Anne Hampton Brewster Charlotte Cushman Society Lecture featuring Dr. Margaret C. Jones October 8, 2024 at
Event Details
Yours Everlovingly: The relationships of Amelia B. Edwards and Anne Hampton Brewster
Charlotte Cushman Society Lecture featuring Dr. Margaret C. Jones
October 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM ET
Virtual Event | Free
Over a few short weeks in the winter of 1870-72, the novelist Amelia Edwards was staying in Rome while suffering from intense depression. She dispatched a series of passionate, sometimes despairing, letters to a fellow writer, Anne Hampton Brewster, with whom she had fallen hopelessly in love. The two women shared much common ground – not only professional aspirations, love for other women and a rejection of heterosexual marriage, but a quest for a surrogate mother figure, following the death of a beloved parent. The talk – ironically titled ‘Yours Everlovingly’ after a line in one of Amelia’s letters, tells of Amelia’s in fact far-from-everlasting passion for Anne Brewster; also of the relationships between the two writers’ works, and their often tragic lives.
Created in 2018, the Charlotte Cushman Society is a group of donors dedicated to recovering and sharing LGBT history and will support on-going initiatives and exploration.
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October 8, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm(GMT-05:00)
