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The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells (1885)
Wednesday, March 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m.
$12 per meeting; free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members (details below)
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Host: Meghan Gelardi Holmes, Curator, Gibson House Museum
*Register here!
Would Silas Lapham have been accepted into the “in-crowd,” if the decision were up to the Gibsons? In this book club meeting, we will discuss class and Boston society in the nineteenth century using the book and the interiors of the Gibson House Museum as our guide.
Purchase The Rise of Silas Lapham from your local bookstore or online through the local-bookstore network, Bookshop. An ebook version is free through Project Gutenberg.
Book description from Penguin Random House: In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston’s old-guard aristocracy.
About the Book Club
The Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum co-host this book club inspired by the literary salons hosted in the houses’ parlors. We welcome both those new to the museums and our familiar friends.
The book club will meet twice a season for group discussion followed by a tour of the host museum. Participants can expect to read a mix of Victorian-era and contemporary fiction (and even the occasional volume of poetry), and each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect or theme of the respective museum. Participants will be given a list of discussion questions the week prior to the event, and each event will highlight particular objects or spaces at the host museum that connect to the book. Programs will take place virtually for now; participants will be invited to meet on site when it becomes safe to do so.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members and is $12 per meeting for non-members ($22 for two consecutive meetings).
We’re thrilled to offer a very special joint membership in conjunction with the book club: join both museums for $60 (a savings of $35) and receive free access to the book club as well as member benefits at both museums! Register and sign up for membership here.
Wednesday, March 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m.
$12 per meeting; free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members (details below)
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Host: Meghan Gelardi Holmes, Curator, Gibson House Museum
*Register here!
Would Silas Lapham have been accepted into the “in-crowd,” if the decision were up to the Gibsons? In this book club meeting, we will discuss class and Boston society in the nineteenth century using the book and the interiors of the Gibson House Museum as our guide.
Purchase The Rise of Silas Lapham from your local bookstore or online through the local-bookstore network, Bookshop. An ebook version is free through Project Gutenberg.
Book description from Penguin Random House: In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston’s old-guard aristocracy.
About the Book Club
The Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum co-host this book club inspired by the literary salons hosted in the houses’ parlors. We welcome both those new to the museums and our familiar friends.
The book club will meet twice a season for group discussion followed by a tour of the host museum. Participants can expect to read a mix of Victorian-era and contemporary fiction (and even the occasional volume of poetry), and each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect or theme of the respective museum. Participants will be given a list of discussion questions the week prior to the event, and each event will highlight particular objects or spaces at the host museum that connect to the book. Programs will take place virtually for now; participants will be invited to meet on site when it becomes safe to do so.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members and is $12 per meeting for non-members ($22 for two consecutive meetings).
We’re thrilled to offer a very special joint membership in conjunction with the book club: join both museums for $60 (a savings of $35) and receive free access to the book club as well as member benefits at both museums! Register and sign up for membership here.
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