- Fiction, Clubs, Women, City and town life
Tells of the lifetimes of two women in a small Ohio town from the Civil War to the New Deal, and of their views of the other ladies of the Waynesboro literary society.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemplative and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Helen Hooven Santmyer
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 1344
- Publisher
- Pan, Pan books, G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780814203231
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“"The formation of the Waynesboro Woman's Club was first proposed in the early summer of 1868."”
American novelist whose 1982 work, *...And Ladies of the Club*, took her over five decades to complete and became a surprise bestseller shortly before her death.
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