Hiding in plain sight throughout America are historic, highly
private women's self-education groups. These clubs are fascinating
survivors from an era following the Civil War when women couldn't
apply to most colleges and were told they shouldn't leave the home.
In their earliest days, the study groups also contributed to the
welfare of their towns - often by helping to found their town's
first library-and served to get women out of the house and into the
world. Today's 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 today's 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 book's
ninety-plus clubs.
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