ORR’S ISLAND — The Orr’s Island Library will host a lecture and reading on Harpswell women writers at the library, 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1.

The speaker is Karin Woodruff Jackson of Cundy’s Harbor, who retired from teaching English at the University of Maine at Augusta in 2008. 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 she 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.”

Beth Dunlap Muldoon of South Harpswell will read selections from the various works.