{"id":374,"date":"2021-11-10T18:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/?p=374"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T19:50:56","slug":"now-available-online-guest-author-laura-gellotts-2021-iowa-city-book-festival-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/2021\/11\/10\/now-available-online-guest-author-laura-gellotts-2021-iowa-city-book-festival-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Available Online &#8211; Guest Author Laura Gellott&#8217;s 2021 Iowa City Book Festival Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries invited special guest author Laura Gellott to discuss her research and recent book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helenperrycurtisbio.com\/\"><em>Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime<\/em><\/a>, during the Iowa City Book Festival in October 2021. Laura&#8217;s presentation is now available to watch on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacityofliterature.org\/\">Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCRhP1sCiyHpdFG8TbWgRvAA\">YouTube Channel<\/a> and via the Guest Speaker playlist on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvjIRb_ZvWJ8368iQ-XLJRA\">UI Libraries channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_dMy6NmmY8\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More about the presentation and author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can a book read in childhood be the inspiration for a lifetime of teaching and European travel? Helen Perry Curtis\u2019s <em>Jean &amp; Company, Unlimited<\/em>, the charming account of an American girl\u2019s first encounter with Europe, was precisely that for author and historian Laura Gellott.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Gellott located Curtis\u2019s three granddaughters. That meeting resulted in the publication of <em>Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime<\/em>. Gellott\u2019s book traces Curtis\u2019s life from its Nebraska roots to New Jersey and New York and across the European continent in the 1930s. She tells the story of the real-life travels behind <em>Jean &amp; Company, Unlimited<\/em>, a book designated as a Junior Literary Guild Selection in January, 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Gellott is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Kenosha), where she taught European history for 30 years. She is a frequent European traveler. She first read <em>Jean &amp; Company, Unlimited<\/em>, nearly 60 years ago. 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Laura&#8217;s presentation is now available to watch on the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature&#8216;s YouTube Channel and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/2021\/11\/10\/now-available-online-guest-author-laura-gellotts-2021-iowa-city-book-festival-lecture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Now Available Online &#8211; Guest Author Laura Gellott&#8217;s 2021 Iowa City Book Festival Lecture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"syndication":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}