NEWSWIRE: TUESDAY JULY 14, 9 PM EDT, THE BOOK NOOK ROOM:
WWW.ACCESSIBLEWORLD.ORG
FICTION, OLD AND NEW
Fiction, Old and New will be discussing Harriet and Isabella by Patricia
O'Brien in the Book Nook Room of Accessibleworld.org on Tuesday, July 14th
at 9:00 p.m.eastern time, 6:00 p.m. pacific time.
This historical fiction book deals with family estrangements in a very
famous family of the time, that of Harriet Beecher Stowe & her famous
preacher brother Henry Ward Beecher. In addition to the family issues, we
have much about the sensational trial of the day, that of Henry being sued
as the responsible party in the dissolution of a friend's marriage.
Here's the NLS annotation:
<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB68708> Harriet
and Isabella DB68708
O'Brien, Patricia. Reading time: 12 hours, 0 minutes.
Read by Mitzi Friedlander.
Historical Fiction
Family
New York, 1887. As the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher is dying, his younger
half sister Isabella seeks reconciliation with him and older sister Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Isabella contemplates the adultery scandal of twelve years
ago that tore her family apart and the involvement of her feminist friend
Victoria Woodhull. 2008.
Co-Hosts:
Sherry Wells <mailto:sherrywells@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sherrywells@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Michelle Bernstein <mailto:michellebbbernstein@xxxxxxxxx>
michellebbbernstein@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM Pacific, 7:00 PM Mountain, 8:00 PM Central, 9:00 PM Eastern,
and elsewhere in the world Saturday 01:00 GMT.
About 15 minutes before start time, go to:
<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e>
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
or, alternatively, go to <http://www.accessibleworld.org/>
www.accessibleworld.org and click on the book nook Room.
Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.
If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing
software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download
and then run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to
the Accessible World rooms.
Robert Acosta, President
Helping Hands for the Blind
(818) 998-0044
www.helpinghands4theblind.org
