Celebrate Women's History Month

Sunday, March 17, starting at 3:00pm ET
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUSY (A Living History Specialty Tour of The Mark Twain House)

Help us wish Susy Clemens a Happy 152nd Birthday! Spend the afternoon with Mark Twain’s eldest daughter Susy, and learn how her family celebrated birthdays in The Gilded Age! A costumed actor will lead you on a tour of the 1st floor of The Mark Twain House, with a special live performance in the drawing room of music that Mark Twain and his family would have listened to or performed themselves.

Limited spots available! Tickets: $30 (adults) $22 (children)

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This tour is a scripted experience that will last approximately 75 minutes, including access to the cellar of The Mark Twain House and a Q&A with Susy–limited to Living History tours only.

Friday, March 22 at 7pm
SPIRITED WOMEN: HEATHER WEBB & ALLISON PATAKI in Conversation (In-Person)

With “Spirited Women”, The Mark Twain House & Museum sets out to explore trailblazing and adventurous women—as chronicled in two new novels—who claim their power by any means necessary. Queens of London is a tale of the dark glamour and sisterhood of Britain’s first female crime syndicate, and how they managed the ever-shifting meaning of justice. Finding Margaret Fuller is a story, with a star-studded cast and sweeping, epic historical events, about a woman who transcended the rigid roles ascribed to women and changed history, all on her own terms.

Admission with one book (pick up at event): $45 for non-members, $40 for MTH&M Members. General admission (no books): $10 for non-members, free for MTH&M Members. 

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Tuesday, March 26 at 7pm ET
Jennifer Habel & Chris Bachelder on DAYSWORK - A Novel with Shastri Akella (Virtual)

Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville’s impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt. Her preoccupation both deepens and expands, and her days’ work extends outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writers—among them Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell—whose lives resonate with Melville’s. As she pulls these distant figures close, her quarantine quest ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition.

Virtual Event! Choose your own price for non-members. Free for members.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

JUST ANNOUNCED!
Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00pm ET
Connecticut Mirror: In The Room with Senator Chris Murphy LIVE In-Person (Hybrid Event)

In The Room is a new, in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy. This first event of the series kicks off with Senator Chris Murphy!

FREE-HYBRID Event! LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

Check-in: 6:15 – 6:50 p.m.

Event Begins: 7:00 p.m. Auditorium Doors Close: 6:55 p.m.

Thank you to the Accountability Sponsor, CBIA.

Thursday, March 28 at 7pm
Jamie Figueroa on MOTHER ISLAND: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico with Susanne Pari (In-Person)

In prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Jamie Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else? In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother’s native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself.

In-Person Event: $10 for non-members, free for MTH&M and community members (Members please login to access your discount). 

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.

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Learn more about the Retail Associate position at The Mark Twain Store and apply, here: https://marktwainhouse.org/about/careers/

Winter Sale in Our Store!

Looking for a unique gift for yourself or others AND want an amazing deal? Look no further than The Mark Twain Museum Store's Winter Sale. Select items, including jewelry, decor and museum exclusives, are on sale now at a deep discount. CLICK HERE to view the Winter Sale items!

While you are visiting our online store, if you spend $50 or more site-wide, you will receive a FREE stationery gift with purchase. CLICK HERE to visit The Mark Twain House Store.

Upcoming Events

V = Virtual Event; IP = In-Person Event

March 22 - Spirited Women: Queens of London and Finding Margaret Fuller with Heather Webb and Alison Pataki (In-Person)

March 26 - Dayswork: A Novel with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder (V)

March 28 - Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico with Jamie Figueroa (IP)

April 2 - The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction 1860-1920 with Manisha Sinha (V)

April 11 - Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age with Geoffrey Stewart (V)

April 23 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: All Things William Gillette with Paul Schiller (IP & V)

April 27 - Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours (IP)

June 30 - THE TROUBLE BEGINS: The Twain of Our Republic and The Lincoln of Our Literature with Jason H. Silverman (V)

To see all event information and registration, CLICK HERE.

To preorder books for our upcoming events, CLICK HERE. Signed books will be mailed after the event. Please note that we cannot ship outside of the U.S. at this time.

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