...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer

( Pre-internet works have few mainstream press reviews online. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. She received most of her fame late in life and died on February 21, 1986, in Xenia, Ohio, aged 90.

She also wrote Herbs and Apples Ohio Town and The Fierce Dispute. And Ladies of the Club was published-it was a best-seller in 1984. In 1935, Helen moved back to Xenia becoming the Dean of Women and the head of Cedarville University English department. Her sonnet, 'The Prairie Town,' from that collection indicates her talent as a poet. She also wrote poetry that appeared in anthologies such as The Bookman Anthology of Verse (1922) from Doran and Company. Later, she returned to Wellesley College to teach in the English Department. When she returned to the United States with her first book published, she expected fame and fortune but found instead the Great Depression. She attended Oxford University in England and was one of the first female Rhodes Scholars. She went to Wellesley College in 1918 and was active in the struggle for women's rights. Helen Hooven Santmyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Xenia, Ohio, when she was five years old. Education-Wellesley College Cambridge University (a.The recognition earned its 88-year-old author critical acclaim and literary recognition according to the back cover of the 1985 paperback edition, the novel took Santmyer more than 50 years to write. Originally published by the Ohio State University Press in 1982 and only selling a few hundred copies, the book was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection in 1984, making it a best-seller that year. Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the Club, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their small town and the larger world. The book flows through decades, as it chronicles the two women's marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Numerous characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but primary are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 as the book begins are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female Seminary. The book spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 18. Over the years the club evolves into a influential community service organization in the town. And Ladies of the Club, a novel by Helen Hooven Santmyer, recounts the lives of a group of women in Waynesboro, Ohio, who begin a study club.

...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer