We have been developing our Scribbling Women website for just over eight months. Lesson plans are complete for each author, and two of our dramatizations can be heard on Windows Media. Two more plays will be presented on the site this fall. An average of 100,000 requests are logged on the site each month. School systems in states ranging from Mississipi to Wisconsin, Alabama to New York are ordering the Scribbling Women multi-media education kit, which includes audio tapes of all 10 stories, for use in their classrooms.

We have presented two-day workshops for high school teachers in three school systems: Boston, Greenwich, and Raleigh. As you will see from the Teacher Workshop page on this site, these workshops have been vigorous and enjoyable. Professors, teachers, producers, and writers all came away from the workshops with new information and new ideas.

We are now preparing a second Scribbling Women series. Ten more dramatizations of short stories by American women writers will include stories by Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Initial funding for the second Scribbling Women collection has been awarded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.

We look forward to receiving your comments and queries, ideas and suggestions.


Valerie Henderson is executive producer of the Scribbling Women series and executive director of the Public Media Foundation.

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