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The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
In 1909, the Cosmos Club formed as a club for governesses, leasing space in the Gibson Building on East 33rd Street. [2] The following year, the club became the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to The New York Times, "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested."
Starting the year the store opened in 2016, the Koch sisters began releasing an annual report titled The State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing. [10] This annual review displays the percentages of authors of color (AOCs) being published by the top romance publishing companies including Harlequin, Kensington, Avon Romance, Entangled, and Crimson Romance. [11]
A table d'hôte menu from the dinner for Walter Damrosch at the Lotos Club, 1893. The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". [1]
Themed book club events, such as queer book clubs, saw an 82% increase in attendance in 2023, according to Eventbrite, while attendance at silent book clubs increased 23%. Silent book club members ...
A collection of social clubs and societies in New York City. ... Women Creating Change This page was last edited on 9 August 2017, at 13:12 (UTC). Text ...
The Century Association was founded by members of New York's Sketch Club; preceding clubs also included the National Academy of Design, the Bread and Cheese Club, and the Column. Traditionally a men's club , women first became active in club life in the early 1900s; the organization began admitting women as members in 1988.
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store.