Cherokee Sister: The Life and letters of Catherine Brown

Dr. Theresa Strouth Gaul will present her latest work, Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823. Join us on Thursday, May 21 to find out more about this Cherokee woman whose letters and diaries give insight into early missions to the Cherokees, Cherokee politics in the era preceding the Trail of Tears, and women’s writing in the early republic.

Theresa Strouth Gaul is Professor of English and Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Texas Christian University. In her research, she works to recovers the writings of early Americans marginalized in traditional literary histories, especially women and Native Americans. The collections of the Congregational Library & Archives play a significant role in Cherokee Sister.