by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain Circle
Each year we are proud to publish a series of essays conceived, written, and edited by members of the Mark Twain Circle of America, which, since 1986, has been the primary member organization devoted to the study of Twain’s “work, life, and times.” Naturally, the...
by admin | Apr 8, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Diandra Alvarado on March 15th, 2017 In 1867, Mark Twain addressed letters to Missouri expressing his disgust at the thought of women’s voting rights. He expressed that women should stick to their “feminine little trifles” that consisted of...
by admin | Mar 11, 2025 | Call for papers
The Mark Twain Circle of America will host two panels at the 36th Annual ALA conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome from all scholars, graduate students to emeriti. Membership in the Circle by the time of ALA is required for panelists, but under...
by admin | Mar 11, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) is one of the least widely read and most critically-reviled books in Mark Twain’s corpus, and justifiably so. It was written under duress, on the brink of financial crisis. Twain sought to stave off disaster by writing a three-quel. But, while...
by admin | Mar 9, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in the 20th century. It has only increased with the...