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*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./


-- 

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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