Hoboken, and especially New Jersey, have been home to some very influential, if not downright iconic, women. This lecture series hopes to raise not only awareness, but appreciation for the legacies these women left behind. 

September 13, Sunday 4pm – Linda Gordon: Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

October 4, Sunday 4pm – Janet Wallach: The Richest Woman in the World: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age (online only)

October 18, Sunday 4pm – Amy Schapiro: Millicent Fenwick, Her Way

November 7, Saturday 4pm – Amy Gilman Srebnick: The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers (online only)

November 15, Sunday 4pm – Eileen Lynch: Martha and Caroline Stevens

November 22, Sunday 4pm – Nancy Nikkal: Anne Ryan: Her Art & Life

December 6, Sunday 4pm – NJ Women Poets Make History!

December 13, Sunday 4pm – An Interview with Maria Pepe

If you'd like to discuss the books featured in this series, you can register to join the authors for a deeper dive onto their biographies here: https://bit.ly/NJWomenBookTalk

This series has been supported through a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities