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Professor Marjorie Howes of Boston College will talk about two mid-century Irish women fiction writers, Norah Hoult (1898 - 1984) and Mary Lavin (1912 - 1996). The talk will focus on two stories which will be distributed a few weeks before the lecture. Professor Howes, who teaches modern Irish writing, is the author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness (1996), editor of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and co-editor of Semicolonial Joyce (2000). She was the only American contributing editor of Irish Women's Writing and Traditions, Vol. IV of the famous Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (2002). Her talk derives in part from the section she edited, Public Discourse, Private Reflection, 1916 - 1970.