South Coast Artists, Inc. and the New Bedford Art Museum Proudly Present Emily Franklin on The Lioness of Boston, an in-person talk and book-signing, Sat., 10/10, at 6 p.m., at the New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA 02740. Tickets: $7 at https://newbedfordart.org/book-talk-lioness/
The Lioness of Boston presents, in historical fiction, a portrait of late 19th-century Boston and one of its most daring and celebrated women, Isabella Stewart Gardner — the connoisseur and visionary collector who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city.
Join us to hear author Emily Franklin discuss how she brought this remarkable woman, her friends, her family, and her era to life in this best-selling novel, now in its eleventh printing and recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy!
Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and photos have been published in leading publications around the world. She grew up half in the UK and half in Boston where she lives now with her spouse and four children. Her new novel is Love & Other Monsters, the untold origin story of Frankenstein told from the perspective Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s forgotten stepsister who changed the course of literature forever.
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