Lecture: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the HANOVER

The wreck of the three-masted, square-rigged ship HANOVER and loss of all hands in 1849 shocked the midcoast Maine community. Susan Beegle will reveal how this tragedy inspired literary themes in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,” written over a decade after the HANOVER’s loss.

Susan Beegel has a Ph.D. in English from Yale University and served as editor of The Hemingway Review for 22 years. She also was a professor in the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program, where she taught “Literature of the Sea.” She included “The Pearl of Orr’s Island” in her course curriculum.

The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets: MMM members $7; non-members $10.