Over 75 Past Lectures Added to the “Trouble Begins Archive”

…“The Ethical Records of Twain and his Circle of Old West Journalists” (March 24, 1993 – Quarry Farm) Laura E. Skandera-Trombley, “Mark Twain’s Elmira Revisited: Through a Woman’s Eye” Shelley…

MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “Mark Twain at The Gallows: Crime and Justice in His Western Writing” by Jarrod D. Roark

…victimizers–and Roark draws upon the familiar works on this topic by Susan K. Harris, Linda A. Morris, Ann M. Ryan, and Laura Skandera Trombley, among others. As Roark points out,…

Past Quadrennial Conferences and Symposia

…Driscoll and Ann Ryan. The keynote address, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Michael Honey,” was given by Laura Skandera Trombley. The following papers were in the Peterson Chapel in Historic Cowles Hall…

Grace King: A Southern Woman of Letters

…————. Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Trombley, Laura Skandera. Mark Twain in…

Grace King: The Clemens Family’s Friend from New Orleans

…Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Trombley, Laura Skandera. Mark Twain in the Company of Women. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997….

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens”

…few years of marriage. We learned more of Olivia when Jeffrey Steinbrink’s Getting to Be Mark Twain (1991) quoted from her letters, and when Laura E. Trombley devoted two chapters…

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “The Illustrated Mark Twain and The Buffalo Express”

…Laura Skandera Trombley. North Country (Rowman & Littlefield), 2024. Pp. 112. Hardcover $26.95 ISBN 978149307603 (hardcover). ISBN 9781493076048 (ebook). Many books reviewed on the Mark Twain Forum are available at…