Announcements and Updates: New at the Howells Society Site

Archive of Announcements and Updates

  • The issue is also online at http://www.howellssociety.org/howellsians/index.html. If you are a Howells Society member and don't remember the password, please e-mail me at howellsqueries@gmail.com and I'll send it to you.
  • 11 June. CFP: Howells panel at NEMLA.
  • 26 May 2008. New queries and replies.
  • 31 March. Queries: a new Howells letter, reviews of A Traveler from Altruria.
  • 2 January 2008. New queries and replies (Howells on Veblen; Howells and MacDowell)
  • 22 December. New queries.
  • 11 November 1007. New replies ; call for ALA papers on Frank Norris.
  • 30 September. CFP for ALA 2008.
  • 29 September. New Queries.
  • 22 July. "Editha" now available at the Howells Society site.
  • 20 July. New Constance Fenimore Woolson letter about Howells.
  • New officers for the Howells Society
  • 19 July. New queries.
  • 21 June 2007. List of Howells's addresses, 1866-1920, by Elif S. Armbruster, PhD
  • 30 March. Howells Society events at ALA: Banquet, trip to Kittery Point. Nominations for officers.
  • 15 February. New queries: Howells and "Mr. Story"
  • 17 January. New queries (Howells in England).
  • 3 January. Updated Howells-l list (easy web interface).
  • 21 November. New queries (Venetian Life).
  • 15 November. Updates to the Queries page.
  • 7 October. New queries and replies.
  • 30 August. Call for Papers for ALA 2007.
  • 23 August. New queries (Howells in Spain); new replies.
  • 30 July. Updates to queries.
  • 8 July 2006. Updates to the Annotated Bibliography of Howells Criticism; new Queries (Howells in Moorefield, OH?)
  • 28 June 2006. New queries; updates to the Norris and Howells bibliographies.
  • 8 June. Updates to the Howells bibliography.
  • 18 May. New Queries.
  • 8 May. New Queries and Replies (Howells family genealogy, RLStevenson)
  • 27 April. New Queries (WDH and Robert Louis Stevenson).
  • 24 March. Information on ALA panels and business meeting.
  • 1 March. Happy birthday to W. D. Howells (March 1, 1837).
  • 28 February. New replies to Queries.
  • 23 February. New Query (on Mildred Howells)
  • 20 February. More on Lapham Rising in Howells in the News.
  • 11 February. New Queries: Howells's dining life in New York.
  • 9 February. New Queries: Howells's voice? A Howells genealogy?
  • 8 February. Notice of Dr. Sanford Marovitz's public lecture on Howells in Cincinnati on April 18 in Howells in the News.
  • 2 February. The Rise of Silas Lapham and Lapham Rising in Howells in the News.
  • 23 January. New Query: Paintings by Elinor Mead? (Reply posted 1/28/06)
  • 8 January 2006. Paintings by Mildred Howells available (notice in Queries 2006); new query about "Christmas Every Day"; new item about W. W. Howells in W. D. Howells in the News.
  • 30 December. The howells-l discussion list is now back in operation at a new address.
  • 26 December. New Queries and Replies.
  • 9 December. Updates to the newly revived annotated bibliography of Howells criticism.
  • 5 December. New in Howells in the News:
    "Howells Rediscovered" from the Atlantic and "'Walloping' Dean Howells and the Johnson-Jeffries fight"
  • 25 October. New Query and Reply (Howells's papers)
  • 4 October. New queries (was WDH a sculptor, too?).
  • 20 September. Updates to the Recent Books and Articles page.
  • 14 September. New issue of The Howellsian has been mailed to members; it includes abstracts from the ALA sessions, a book review by Sarah Daugherty, and "Twain's Whittier Birthday Speech and Howells" by Jerome Loving. If you did not receive your copy, we may not have a current address for you; please contact the WDHS.
  • 14 August. Call for Papers for the American Literature Association's 2006 conference in San Francisco. (Also in Howells News and Notes.)
  • 26 July. New Query: Howells's "The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express" as a source for "The Little Engine that Could"
    • 19 June. The October-December 2005 (volume 21, numbers 5-6) issue of Timeline, a publication of the Ohio Historical Society, has an article about Howells: "Dean of American Letters: William Dean Howells," by Victoria Nelson. The piece includes photographs of William Cooper and Mary Dean Howells, the young Howells family (WDH, Elinor, and the children), an architectural sketch of "Red Top," and pictures of Howells and his contemporaries.
  • 19 June. Query about new book in Howells News and Notes; updates to the current bibliography.
  • 10 June. Excerpts from and link to Adam Gopnik's New Yorker review of Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson's new biography of Howells in W. D. Howells in the News.
  • 5 June. Recent updates to W. D. Howells in the News, which collects news items in which WDH is mentioned : address of the Xenophon; WDH and vaudeville; rediscovering Indian Summer; realist novels after "fog of postmodernism." New address for this site.
  • 3 June. New feature: FAQ about Howells; new query on The Day of Their Wedding.
  • 1 June. Updates to the current bibliography.
  • 30 May. New officers were elected at the ALA business meeting.
    • 13 May. Note: The site has been redesigned to eliminate frames and provide easier access to the materials. If you have any problems with this design, please e-mail me and I will try to correct them (or if you like it, let me know). Some pages are not yet available.
  • 14 April. New Query (Familiar Spanish Travels).
  • 27 March. New Query (Howells and Theodore Fontane)
  • 22 March. New Query (the narrative "I"in The Rise of Silas Lapham)
  • 15 March. The Howellsian, Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2005) has been mailed to members of the William Dean Howells Society. Its contents include messages from the president and vice president, information on Howells sessions and the business meeting at ALA, announcements, and a book excerpt from Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson's forthcoming biography of William Dean Howells.
  • Our new web address is www.howellssociety.org.
  • 4 March. Query about Jane Addams's reaction to Howells's "tirade on the
    mania for self sacrifice": which novel? Also: source of "palpitating divans"?
  • 1 March. Happy Birthday to W. D. Howells (1837-1920).
  • 17 February. Howells cited as authority for Deadwood's language in WDH in the News (from The New Yorker)
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