Laura McNeal
Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak from Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Bathsheba is the only romantic heroine in this period of literature who has a job and financial independence. Gabriel, besides being that sexiest of English things, a shepherd, is the ideal man: perceptive, forgiving, and good at all the things that matter in his world.
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Laura McNeal:
As Vice President of the AAUW La Mesa-El Cajon CA Foundation, I would like to invite you to speak at our Scholarship Benefit Luncheon here in San Diego on April 5, 2025. We can offer an honorarium of $200, and you will be able to sell your books. Would you be able to do this?
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