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Lecture featuring Cornelia Dayton: Snapshots of 18th & 19th Century American Women

Thu, Mar 05

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The Mather Homestead

We celebrate Women's History Month by welcoming Cornelia Dayton, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and author of Women's America: Refocusing the Past. She will dive into the history of American women in CT - focusing on the 18th and 19th century. Who were they? What did they do?

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Lecture featuring Cornelia Dayton: Snapshots of 18th & 19th Century American Women
Lecture featuring Cornelia Dayton: Snapshots of 18th & 19th Century American Women

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Mar 05, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

The Mather Homestead, 19 Stephen Mather Rd, Darien, CT 06820, USA

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Cornelia Dayton spent most of her childhood in Pennsylvania and Maine. In 1979 she graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College, magna cum laude in history and government. After receiving her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 1986 where she worked principally with Stanley N. Katz and John Murrin, Dayton held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship and assistant professorship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary. She was on the History faculty of the University of California at Irvine between 1988 and 1997. Since 2001, she has held several residential fellowships—at the Huntington Library in California; the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University; the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA; and the Univ. of Connecticut Humanities Institute.


18th-19th century women and gender, not so much the 20c.  Maybe I could style an interactive talk around snapshots across time for Connecticut…

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