Roberta Harold, Author of Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw, discusses her novel, set in 1892, that imagines Annie’s independent life in Belle Époque Paris, and her struggle to reach a belated coming of age. A tea will be served after her presentation. Annie Haggerty spent her honeymoon with Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in May 1863 at her family’s summer home, Vent Fort (predecessor to Ventfort Hall), just before Shaw led the Union’s first Black regiment on a doomed mission at Fort Wagner, SC. Annie’s subsequent life as a widow is largely a mystery. Roberta Harold’s novel Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw, set in 1892, imagines Annie’s independent life in Belle Époque Paris, and her struggle to reach a belated coming-of-age as an artist and full participant in the creative and intellectual circles of the “real” Paris.