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Books by Sara Fitzgerald

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Author of Novels and Non-fiction, telling stories of Little-Known Women

Author of Novels and Non-fiction, telling stories of Little-Known WomenAuthor of Novels and Non-fiction, telling stories of Little-Known WomenAuthor of Novels and Non-fiction, telling stories of Little-Known WomenAuthor of Novels and Non-fiction, telling stories of Little-Known Women

EveNTS and Appearances

Upcoming and Past Appearances, In Person and Virtual

American Literature Association

2025 Conference

"Poetry and Emily Hale"

4 p.m. , May 23, 2025

Westin Copley Plaza Hotel

Boston


Leading Ladies of Michigan's Past

Macomb Community College Exhibit and Presentations

Lorenzo Cultural Center

April 25, 2025

11 a.m. "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX"

1 p.m. "Elly Peterson: 'Mother' Of the Moderates"


Cambridge Public Library Book Talk

449 Broadway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

6:30 p.m. April 1


Modern Language Association 2025 Convention, New Orleans

January 11, 2025

Panel: 21st Century Eliot

T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale: Visibility and Invisibility

Downloadable Copy of Paper


Mary Riley Styles Public Library, 1 p.m. Saturday, November 16

Book talk on "The Silenced Muse"


Deciphering Emily Hale's Legacy with Sara Fitzgerald

A conversation with Sigrid Anderson, University of Michigan

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Sponsored by the U-M Honors Program, the Departments of History, English Language and Literature, and  Women and Gender Studies, and the  Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts 


Reclaiming the Emily Hale Story

Interview with HEC Media, St. Louis 


One More Page Books, Arlington, VA

In conversation with biographer Diana Parsell about "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime"


"Sara Fitzgerald Presents Latest Book, "The Silenced Muse"

Falls Church News-Press


Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO

In conversation with  University of Missouri Professor Frances Dickey, former president of the International T. S. Eliot Society, about "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime"


Livestream of September 19 talk


Politics and Prose, Connecticut Avenue store, Washington D.C. 

Book signing and author talk, "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot and the Role of a Lifetime"

5 p.m. Saturday  September 28 

American Literature Association

"The Making of a Playwright: T. S. Eliot, Emily Hale, and a Conflict of Tastes"

May 24, 4 p.m. , Palmer House Hotel, Chicago


Washington Writers Conference

Panelist, "Nonfiction: From Proposal to Publication"

May 4, Bethesda, MD


Historical Society of Michigan

History Hounds Online Webinar

"Conquering Heroines: U-M Women Paving the Way to Title IX"

January 17, 2024, 7-8 p.m.


University of Michigan Alumnae Council

Annual Luncheon, Keynote speaker

"Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX"

(Presentation starts at 1:59 in video)

October 1, 2022

International T. S. Eliot Society

Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

"The Pitfalls of Biography: Inside the Notebooks of 'Great Tom'"

September 24, 2022

Remedial Herstory Project's 2nd Annual Summer Educators' Retreat

"The Lure of Women's History"

(Virtual Presentation)

August 8-10, 2022

Author Talk: Mary Riley Styles Public Library

"The Lure of Women's History"

Wednesday March 23, 2022 7 p.m.

American Historical Association's 2022 Annual Conference

Virtual Panel: "Fifty Years of Title IX: Evolutions in the Struggle Against Sex Discrimination in Education" 

Presenter about "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias and Paved the Way for Title IX"

February 23, 2022

Biographers International Organization

"Pitching and Promoting Biographies of Women: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Success"
Webinar for Women's Biographers Roundtables

Panel Moderator

January 12, 2022

Bentley Historical Library: Making Michigan Series

Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX

Bentley Historical Library,

November 11, 2021


Midwest Modern Language Association

Annual Convention
Panel organized by the International T. S. Eliot Society

"Emily Hale: The Milwaukee Years"

November 5, 2021


University of Michigan Press Featured Author Presentation

Conquering Heroines

Webinar

October 27, 2021 



International T. S. Eliot Society

Annual Conference,

"Emily Hale: The Woman Behind the Curtain"

September 24-25, 2021



Celebration of 2021 Women's Equality Day

"Conquering Heroines" 

League of Women Voters of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Henry Ford Village, August 23, 2021



Friends of the Princeton University Library

"T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale Letters: Reexamined"

Virtual Panel of T. S. Eliot scholars, April 18, 2021


Sara Fitzgerald/Photo by Liz Roll

"Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan"

Local History Conference, Historical Society of Michigan

March 20, 2021 

"Stories of Three Little-Known Women Whose Stories Remain Relevant Today"

Encore Learning Presentation

November 9, 2020  

"T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale: Keeping Secrets, Avoiding Scandal"

 Presentation for the Panel "T. S. Eliot: Provocation, Creation. . . and Scandal?",

sponsored by the International T. S. Eliot Society 

South Atlantic Modern Language Association's 92nd Annual Conference

November 14, 2020  

"Fifty Years After the U-M Sex Bias Complaint: An Honors Alumna Looks Back at 'Conquering Heroines'

University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts Honors Program

October 12, 2020

International T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting

Panel on the Eliot-Hale Correspondence
October 2, 2020

Bluffton Book Festival

Fiction Authors' Panel
September 17, 2020

Author Talk Sponsored by One More Page Books

Talk and Virtual Book Signing
September 16, 2020

Author Talk to University of Michigan Washington Alumni Club

Zoomed Talk
June 23, 2020

Author Talk on "The Poet's Girl"

Mary Riley Styles Public Library

May 28, 2020

Archived on Facebook

Library of Congress Women's History Roundtable

February 6, Washington, DC 

(This group meets monthly when the Library is open. Contact me for details.)

Author Talk and Book Signing for "The Poet's Girl"

One  More Page Books

2200 N. Westmoreland Street

Arlington, VA 22213

7 p.m., February 26


Other Appearances

CEW+ (Center for the Education of Women) Annual Symposium

"Redefining Leadership"

University of Michigan, October 29, 2019

Panelist, "Diverse Voices, Sex Discrimination, and the Role of Media in Advocacy"

Video summary of event



Sara Fitzgerald/ Photo by Liz Roll

Sara Fitzgerald/ Photo by Liz Roll

"The Poet's Girl"

Phillips Andover-Abbot Academy Reunion, June 2018

"A Secret Life in Letters." Andover Magazine, October 23, 2018

"Elly Peterson: 'Mother' of the Moderates"

Interview on Michigan Public Radio's "Stateside" (April 15, 2020) in connection with "Mrs. America" mini-series on Hulu on FX

C-SPAN BOOK TV, Speech to the Michigan Political History Society

 https://www.c-span.org/person/?sarafitzgerald02    

Question and Answers about the Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CDzwErRcI

U-M Hatcher Library Speaker Series

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/sara-fitzgerald-discussed-new-book-feminist-political-leader


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