
Hosted by St. Mary Parish Library.
Adults are invited to join them for an engaging literary discussion with Amber Jurgensen,
PhD candidate at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Her dissertation, Agents of Change: Poison and the Social Body in Victorian Literature,
explores the fears and cultural anxieties surrounding poison in the nineteenth century.
Amber will guide you through the fascinating role of poison in classic, gothic, and contemporary literature.