Chrissy Citron invites anyone who’ll be in the Denver area on Oct. 23 to an illustrated lecture co-sponsored by the Colorado Yale Association:

COLORADO CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND ART
&
COLORADO YALE ASSOCIATION & VASSAR CLUB OF COLORADO

WITH THANKS TO THE COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

This event is open to the public and is free.

SAVE THE DATE  FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2009 7 p.m.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE      
ABOUT
MARY HALLOCK FOOTE
BY 
PROFESSOR CHRISTIE HILL SMITH

Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938), early and prominent western author and illustrator, was one of the first women to make a living writing fiction about the West. From a genteel background in New York (and educated at the Female Collegiate Seminary in Poughkeepsie), she moved west with her mining engineer husband (who had attended Yale University), lived in Leadville, CO and Deadwood, South Dakota, among other places. She frequently wrote and illustrated for Century magazine. In 12 novels and many short stories, she wrote about the cultural isolation she felt on the frontier. Three of her novels are set in Leadville. Her letters back East became the basis for Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Angle of Repose, and were later published as an autobiography, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.

Smith is associate professor of humanities at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She is a graduate of Tufts and received her masters and doctorate from University of Denver. Her grandparents met at Yale in a Beowolf seminar in their own doctoral programs. Reared in Cambridge, Mass., she has lived in the West for thirty years.

Smith’s book Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote will be available for purchase following the presentation.

LOCATION :    
The Boettcher Auditorium at The Colorado Historical Society, 1300 Broadway, Denver

Advance RSVPs requested but not required.
Admission without reservation will be first come, first served.
For information about this free event or to RSVP, contact

CHRISTIANE  CITRON
COLORADO CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND ART
303-777-2242
Fax: 303-777-7278
BookingDenver [at] msn [dot] com