Sharing the Stories
During the pandemic, I began research armed with my curiosity about the city’s corset industry in a room full of city directories at the library of what was then known as the Worcester Historical Museum (now Museum of Worcester). I started by looking for clues about a local female factory owner I had heard about. Digging for information about her life led me to discover the city’s dozens of other factories and sole proprietors in the corset industry. They deserved limelight, I thought. So I wrote a few profiles and created a website.
“This,” people started telling me, “should be a book.”
tHE book TOUR
October 27, 2027 (time tbd)
October 21, 2026 at 6:30pm
September 2, 2026 at 7pm
May 16, 2026 at 2pm
The Official Book Launch event at the Museum of Worcester, Worcester, MA
October 25, 2025, 3pm
175th anniversary of the first national women’s rights convention celebration at Mechanics Hall, spoke as part of a full-day event celebrating that anniversary and signed a small batch of review copies of the book.
May 18, 2024 2pm
Talk at the Blackstone River Valley Heritage Center | 3 Paul Clancy Way Worcester, MA, 01607 | (508) 373-7056
March 13, 2024 7pm
Book talk at the Shrewsbury Public Library
October 26, 2023, 5pm
Worcester Women’s History Project and the Worcester Historical Museum announced their new partnership at an event at the museum where Anne Marie read from several chapters of the book, shared images, answered questions.
https://www.wwhp.org/node/1628
October 18, 2023 6:30pm
Book talk at the Bigelow Free Public Library in Clinton, Massachusetts
https://bigelowlibrary.org/
September 29 , 2023 2pm
Book talk sponsored by the Langley-Adams Library in Groveland, Massachusetts held at Nichols Village auditorium
https://langleyadamslib.org/ | http://www.nichols-village.com/
April 28, 2023
Worcester Historical Museum newsletter April 2028 feature on National Tell a Story Day
“Read the recent story of one researcher, Anne Marie Murphy, and her efforts to tell the story of Worcester’s extensive corset industry. Read more in ‘Form, fit, and fortunes: Researcher unravels story of Worcester’s corset industry,’ in the current issue of Worcester MAGAZINE.”
April 19, 2023
“Form, fit, and fortunes: Researcher unravels story of Worcester’s corset industry”
Project featured in Worcester Magazine
https://www.worcestermag.com/
March 17, 2023
Interview with the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project, will appear at their website later this year.
https://www.wwohp.org
March 13, 2023
Visit to Clark University’s History 120 class Writing History which “introduces students to the discipline of history, with emphasis on the different types of historical writing and on the issues involved in the research and writing of historical studies.”
https://catalog.clarku.edu
October 26, 2022 5:30pm
TidePool Book Shop, Worcester Massachusetts.
Discussion and book signing with Phyllis Wong, author of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Anne Marie Murphy, author of the forthcoming book City of Corsets.
https://www.tidepoolbookshop.com/event/