Hageman,+Betty

623 A Street S.E. Washington, DC 20003-1225 202-547-4986 ehageman@christa.unh.edu
 * Betty Hageman**

**1969: **I graduated from Simmons College in Boston in 1963. That summer I spent 10 weeks in Europe visiting France, Switzerland, Holland, the British Isles and Ireland and studying 6 weeks in Edinburgh. I received my masters from Columbia University and taught a year at Colby Junior College in New Hampshire. The following summer I returned to the British Isles and Holland. I taught at William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia for 3 years. Now I am working on my Doctorate in English at the University of North Carolina. This August I am touring Paris, Madrid and London. August 15th and 16th I’ll be seeing plays in Stratford-on-Avon.


 * 1979:** I'm sorry to miss the reunion, but I'll be teaching in England in August. the University of New Hampshire, where I'm an Associate Professor of English, has a summer program in Cambridge; I'll be teaching Shakespeare to 25 students from UNH and other American universities. I'm now living in an old house in Maine, just 18 miles from school, on the Atlantic coast. So much of my time is spent carrying wood for my "All Nighter" stove and repainting walls. Best to everyone!


 * 1999:** I am Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where I teach courses in Shakespeare and his contemporaries and am currently editing an edition of the 17th century writer Katherine Philips. I live in Portsmouth, NH, but visit Mt. Vernon quite often.


 * 2009**: I'm looking forward to seeing you all at this reunion. In past years, I would have been either teaching or getting ready for the semester at the end of August, but I retired in 2008 and so now my time is much more flexible. I taught for 37 years at the University of New Hampshire--during which time I lived in Kittery Point, Maine, and then Portsmouth, NH. Five years ago I purchased a house near the Folger Library in Washington, DC, and began using it during vacations and for my 2005-2006 sabbatical year (when Carol Christie Smith and her husband Newell came to visit). Now I'm enjoying DC full time, attending the Inauguration on Jan 20, for example, and hoping that the District will indeed achieve voting status in Congress very soon. I'm still involved in research at the Folger, where my focus is on women writers who were (roughly) contemporary with Shakespeare.