Davenport House Museum Announces Harvest Lecture

Material Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America

The speaker will be Nora Doyle, PhD., Assistant Professor of History, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

Topic: Materials Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America Date: Monday, December 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the

Kennedy Pharmacy, 323 E. Broughton Street, Savannah, GA

Free to the public but reservations for seating are requested. 912.236- 8097

Dr. Doyle will discuss her newly published book (University of North Carolina Press) on motherhood in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Review: “The only study of its kind to combine social history, literary sources, and visual culture, Maternal Bodies offers a rich and complex discussion of the meaning of motherhood in colonial North America and the antebellum United States”— Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania

Additionally: A reception and opportunity to meet the speaker will follow.

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