*I'm looking forward to seeing Mark Twain Forum folks this week --
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Talk Wednesday, Feb. 12 at Mark Twain House, for series The Trouble
Begins at 5:30 *
*Mark Twain Writes a Blank Book: The Story of Mark Twain's Self-Pasting
Scrap-Book Invention *
Mark Twain not only kept scrapbooks, but he invented a scrapbook that
didn't need glue. He may have earned more money from this wordless,
blank book than from some of the books he wrote.* *This talk will
discuss his scrapbook invention. It will explain its roots in the free
reprinting of his work that so irritated Twain, and the brilliant way
that his scrapbook let him take advantage of that proliferating
reprinting. This talk also sheds new light on how and why Samuel Clemens
became Mark Twain. Mark Twain's innovative uses of scrapbooks was yet
another way he was ahead of his time.
Reception at 5, talk at 5:30. 351 Farmington Ave. Hartford, CT 06105;
860-247-0998
*Ellen Gruber Garvey* is the author of/ Writing with Scissors: American
Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance/ (Oxford UP,
2013) and /The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of
Consumer Culture/, winner of the SHARP prize for the best book of 1996
on the history of the book. She has written extensively on women editing
periodicals, the advertising of books, and on print culture, in venues
that include /American Quarterly/, /The New York Times/ "Disunion" blog,
/The Root/, and /Slate./ She is Professor in the English Department of
New Jersey City University, where she also teaches Women's and Gender
Studies, and co-edits the journal /Transformations: The Journal of
Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy./
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Ellen Gruber Garvey, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English, New Jersey City University
Author, /Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War
to the Harlem Renaissance
<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/?view=usa&ci=9780199927692>/
Visit the Scrapbook History website <http://scrapbookhistory.wordpress.com/>
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