Arts & Culture

DCHA Conversations & Cocktails with Jeffrey R. Bibbee

Join us on Zoom October 15 for “Chaucer for Children and the Art of Housekeeping: Mary Eliza Joy Haweis and Victorian Domesticity,” a Conversations & Cocktails talk given by UT Martin Dean Jeffrey Bibbee. Join here: tiny.utk.edu/CandCBibbee Mary Eliza Joy Haweis (1848-1898) was a 19th century Martha Stewart. Her Art of Housekeeping (1889) was a best seller, and Haweis brought Chaucer to a new late Victorian audience with her exalted Chaucer for Children series. Dr. Jeffrey R. Bibbee is an historian who focuses on 19th and 20th century British studies with an emphasis on politics and…