Labour茅 College is hosting a lecture and book signing featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Megan Marshall. Ms. Marshall鈥檚 lecture is entitled 鈥淭he Beginning鈥檚 of an American鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Movement in New England Transcendentalism: Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller.鈥� This lecture is a part of the College鈥檚 Authors Series on Contemplation, Community, Love, and Empowerment.
Both Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller were trailblazers, paving new paths for women in American society. Elizabeth Peabody championed women鈥檚 rights and educational reform. Margaret Fuller was a passionate writer, who rose to prominence in the transcendentalist movement in America and then left to work as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley鈥檚Tribune.
"Megan Marshall鈥檚 talk about Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the origins of the American Women鈥檚 Movement will be a fitting conclusion to the College鈥檚 Authors Series about contemplation, community, love, and empowerment - especially because, at Labour茅, the overwhelming majority of students are women who are career changers, parents, caregivers, and bread winners in healthcare programs dedicated to promoting wellness and happiness in people鈥檚 lives," said Al DeCiccio, Ph.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs at Labour茅 College.
Megan Marshall is the author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. She was recently named the first Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College where she teaches nonfiction writing and archival research in the MFA Creative Writing Program. Her biography The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism won the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians; the Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by the Anthony Lukas Prize Project jointly sponsored by the Columbia School of Journalism and Harvard鈥檚 Nieman Foundation; the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction; and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir in 2006.
The event will be held on Friday, June 19, 2015 from 1:30 - 3:30 PM at Labour茅 College, 303 Adams Street, Milton, MA 02186 in Room C112. This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information please visit .