Women's History Lecture at The Filson

Judi Jennings, the author of Gender, Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century, will join The Filson during Women's history month for a lecture on March 6, 2008 at noon. She will focus on the Quaker artist and author, Mary Morris Knowles, a woman of many facets - a radical thinker, a brilliant conversationalist, a respected religious writer, an advocate for the abolition of slavery, a poet and a talented artist of needle painting.

The lecture will highlight Knowles' accomplishments and look at the connections between religion, radicalism, and gender then and now. One will also experience the argument between Knowles and Samuel Johnson come off the written page, as Jennings and guests present the dispute's dialogue.

Free and open to the public at The Filson Historical Society, 1310, South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208