I am copying this to John Radcliffe in case it would be appropriate to put
on the web-site. If not, members who live in/are visiting California in
April, may be interested.
With best wishes, Jane Keskar
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From: "angelica" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 2:09 AM
Subject: Burnett conference
Dear Ms Keskar, Frances Hodgson Burnett used to watch Rudyard Kipling
ride his bicycle in Kent. We're hoping that some members of the Kipling
Society might be interested in our Burnett conference. Best wishes,
Angelica Carpenter
PRESS RELEASE
February 21, 2003
California State University, Fresno
Henry Madden Library
5200 N. Barton Ave. M/S ML 34
Fresno CA 93740-8014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Angelica Carpenter, Curator
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature
Phone: (559) 278-8116
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT CONFERENCE
The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at
California State University, Fresno, will host the first conference ever
to examine the life and works of Frances Hodgson Burnett, April 25-27,
2003, in Fresno.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is renowned for her classic children's books:
The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. The
fact that most of her 60+ bestselling novels were written for adults is
not so well known. These books, with subjects like working women, single
motherhood, abusive marriages, and the interaction of cultures, are
sparking new, international interest. The conference will bring together
all major authors who have written about Burnett and will present new
research by international experts in children's literature.
Burnett's novel The Making of a Marchioness has recently been
republished in England with an afterword by the conference's keynote
speaker, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. Gerzina is a Vassar Professor of
English whose new biography of Burnett will be published by Rutgers
University Press in 2003. Her keynote speech is entitled "Not Just for
Children: The Life and Legacy of Frances Hodgson Burnett."
Alison Lurie, who teaches children's literature at Cornell University,
will deliver a lecture at the conference on Burnett's adult novel The
Making of a Marchioness. Lurie, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel
Foreign Affairs, is the author of Boys and Girls Forever: Children's
Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter, and Don't Tell the Grown-Ups:
The Subversive Power of Children's Literature.
Ann Thwaite, Burnett's principal biographer, author of Waiting for the
Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, will also be a featured
speaker. Thwaite, the esteemed British author of A. A. Milne: The Man
Behind Winnie-the-Pooh, will deliver a pre-conference lecture, "Who
Wrote Winnie-the-Pooh?" at the Satellite Student Union at 7:30 p.m.,
Thursday, April 24, as part of the University Lecture Series.
Other featured speakers at the conference will include Phyllis Bixler,
author of Frances Hodgson Burnett; Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Curator
of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond
the Secret Garden; Michael Cart, librarian, teacher, Booklist columnist,
and author of From Romance to Realism, a History of Young Adult
Literature; and Penny Deupree, Frances Hodgson Burnett's
great-granddaughter.
Conference presenters include Carole Dunbar, Lecturer, St. Patrick's
College, Drumcondra, Ireland; Jerry Griswold, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, author of Audacious
Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books; Ariko
Kawabata, Assistant Professor, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan; Anne
Lundin, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies,
University of Wisconsin, author of Victorian Horizons: The Reception of
the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate
Greenaway; Tim Morris, Professor and Chair in the English Department,
University of Texas at Arlington, author of You're Only Young Twice:
Children's Literature and Film; Midori Todayama, Associate Professor,
Hachinohe National College of Technology, Japan; and many more.
The deadline for conference registration is April 11. For more
information, check the Center's Web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org, or
contact the Center by E-mail at [log in to unmask], or by
calling
(559) 278-8116.
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