HARPSWELL — The Harpswell Historical Society will host a lecture on Harpswell women writers of the past at its annual meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 7 p.m. at Centennial Hall in Harpswell Center.

A news release describes the lecture as follows:

The speaker is Karin Woodruff Jackson of Cundy’s Harbor, who retired from teaching English at the University of Maine at Augusta in 2008. During the 1980s, she taught at Westbrook College in Portland (now part of the University of New England), where she researched Harpswell women writers as part of a grant from the Maine Humanities Council on the Maine Women Writers Collection at the college.

In her talk, Jackson will focus on images and impressions of Harpswell in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,” Marie Peary’s “The Snowbaby’s Own Story,” part of which tells about the Peary family’s life on Eagle Island, and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Ragged Island.”

Jackson will be assisted by Beth Dunlap Muldoon of South Harpswell, who will read selections from the various works. Muldoon is an accomplished actress, and participated in a dramatic presentation as part of the grant that Jackson directed at Westbrook College. They are pleased to be collaborators once again on this project for the Historical Society.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, visit www.harpswellhistorical.org.