Smart Women: The Search for America’s Historic All - Women Study Clubs
Hiding in plain sight throughout America are historic, highly private womenas self-education groups. These clubs are fascinating survivors from an era following the Civil War when women couldnat apply to most colleges and were told they shouldnat leave the home. In their earliest days, the study groups also contributed to the welfare of their towns - often by helping to found their townas first library-and served to get women out of the house and into the world. Todayas all-women study clubs have no civic component but still fashion their meetings as their founding great-grandmothers did, with members taking turns giving original papers. In Smart Women, author Ann Dodds Costello discusses her four-year quest to locate, often visit, and describe todayas 100-year-old, all-women study clubs, all over America, even though they do not publicize and have no central organization or knowledge of each other. Included: an invaluable, first-ever directory of most of the bookas ninety-plus clubs.Chiles, a Mrs. Richard, and a Mrs. Vickers to the cluba#39;s membership roll.77 4. Size of club as limited by ... She needs a sponsor and two seconders, who, if she does want to join, send proposal letters to the president. These letters are read ... When a vote is taken, it is by secret or private ballot. Three or more noes keep the anbsp;...
| Title | : | Smart Women: The Search for America’s Historic All - Women Study Clubs |
| Author | : | Ann Dodds Costello |
| Publisher | : | Lulu Press, Inc - 2015-09-10 |
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