Mon, Jul 11, 2022 | 7:00 pm

Princeton Public Library , Princeton

The quest for identity often involves undertaking a journey, whether literally or figuratively. The five autobiographies in this series tell of both kinds of journeys. Welty recalls her family’s week-long trips in their touring car to visit relatives in West Virginia; Stewart’s letters are written as a result of a move to frontier Wyoming; Hurston is literally on the move from the age of nine; Duncan, too, voyages at a young age from San Francisco to Chicago to London and then to the Continent, Africa, Greece, and Russia; Yet all these women journey inward, too, to discover and write about the sense of self. Of course, many women live lives far more constricted than these; yet the opportunity to journey inward belongs to them as well. (Session 1 of 4)

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