Book Talks - Non-Fiction/Biography: The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty In-Person
In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, founded the Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received Harvard fellowships -- poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen -- quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation.
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Heimberg Business Meeting Room (Map )
- Library Branch:
- Downtown Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Talk