Susan Belasco Oct. 12, 8 pm, UPS Auditorium, Lincoln Center

Susan Belasco, professor of English and women’s/gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses a controversial anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its author Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Belasco edited the book Stowe in Her Own Time.

An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson Oct. 26, 7:30 pm, UPS Auditorium, Lincoln Center

Actress Patricia Hruby Powell presents a one-woman play about the lives and works of three 19th-century women writers who dared to break the male monopoly on literary greatness.