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The Englishwoman's Review was a feminist periodical published in England between 1866 and 1910. Until 1869 called in full The Englishwoman's Review: a journal of woman's work , in 1870 (after a break in publication) it was renamed The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions .
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
By 1939, the Right Book Club claimed 20,000 subscribers, in comparison with some 50,000 members of the Left Book Club and 5,000 of the National Book Association. On 3 November 1939, the humorist A. G. Macdonell replied to an invitation from Christina Foyle to join the Club, "I had no idea that there were twenty thousand members of the Right in ...
A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [168] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [169] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [170] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...
Holderman and Simms are like filmmakers who are longing for the day they can make a network series. Yet the first rule of "Book Club" is: Never underestimate the cheeky sentimental old-girl-power ...
The Women's Press Club (established 1943) was created in response to the prohibition of women from the men-only London Press Club. It was founded by journalist Phyllis Deakin and ran for 25 years, when, for financial reasons, it changed its name and began to accept men into its membership. [ 1 ]
Reviewed New York Times Book Review, March 25, 1994. TLS, June 10, 1994; The New Republic, Oct. 24, 1994; editions in Spanish, Polish, Lithuanian and Chinese under contract. A selection of the History Book Club. Forums on the book in History and Theory and the Journal of the History of Ideas.
The group has been described by many historians and authors (such as Jeanine Dobbs) [4] as “having preserved and advanced feminism” via the advocacy for women's education and the social complaints regarding women's status and lifestyle in their society, as seen and exemplified in the writings of the Blue Stockings women themselves: