Hroswitha Club Records.

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Title

Hroswitha Club Records.

Date

1944-1999

Description

On November 3, 1944, Sarah Gildersleeve Fife wrote this letter to Catherine Dickey (née Dunscomb) inviting her to join a newly formed club for women authors, book collectors, curators, and librarians. Two weeks later, the Hroswitha Club held its first meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York City. For over fifty years, the members of the Hroswitha Club gathered in libraries and private homes to share their bookish interests and activities. The Grolier Club’s own librarian, Ruth Shepard Granniss (1872-1954), was one of the founding members, and when the Grolier Club began admitting women in 1976, many Hroswitha Club members were among the first to join.

Source

Gift of the Morgan Library & Museum, 2004.