Charles Brockden Brown, attributed to Ellen Sharples, after James Sharples Senior, circa 1810. Independence National Historical Park.
The eighth biennial conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, titled Speculations: Aesthetics, Risk, and Capital in the Circum-Atlantic World, 1790-1830, will be held Thurs-Sat April 19-21, 2012, in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center. View the conference program.