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Dive deeper into Eckhart Tolle's transformative book, ... Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club pick, "A New Earth" ... January 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM. Discussion Questions. In Chapter ...
The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection. Though republished in 1963 under his own name after his death, the text still refers to his wife as “H” (her seldom used first name was Helen). [1] The book is compiled from the four notebooks used by Lewis to vent and explore his grief.
Sociologist Christy Craig said that women have turned to book clubs to construct social networks and important partnerships, especially in times of upheaval. [1] A 2018 BookBrowse survey found that 88% of private book clubs are all-women groups, but almost half of public groups—such as those hosted by libraries—include men. [2]
Riding horses, donkeys or mules, on foot or by rowboat, [1] the librarians — various known as "book women", "book ladies" or "packsaddle librarians" — would follow long, mountainous routes, riding hundreds of miles each week in difficult weather and trail conditions, in dozens of rural counties where there were no libraries at all. [2]
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin (1979) Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1979) Women and Household Labor, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed. (1979) "35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized", Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization (late 1970s) [368]
Men, Women, And Gods, And Other Lectures, Helen H. Gardener (1885) [100] The Bostonians, Henry James (1886) Cathy the Caryatid (Polish: Kaśka Kariatyda), a novel by Gabriela Zapolska (1886) The Woman Question, Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling (1886) [101] Misogyny in Excelsis, Annie Besant (1887) [102] Women and Men, Thomas Wentworth ...
The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 1868 and 1932. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female College. They ...
The organization started in 1917, [1] when women in the book industry were excluded from joining the professional organization, the Bookseller's League. [5] Twenty one women met in New York at The Sunwise Turn bookshop on November 13, 1917, and founded the Women's National Association of Booksellers and Publishers - soon to become known as the Women's National Book Association - as an ...