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!Women Art Revolution, Digital archive A digital archive was created to contain the two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews that went into creating this film and is available through the Stanford University Libraries collection, !W.A.R. Voices of a Movement.
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!Women Art Revolution, Digital archive According to the collection website, Hershmann Leeson desired this repository to "be shared with as wide an audience as possible".
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception Barry Keith Grant praises the film in his Film International piece, "Leeson's film is a like a patchwork quilt of disparate footage, but in the end it all comes together to become an important feminist work.
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception The film could well serve as required viewing for art and film students today."
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception Reviewer Ellen Druda says, "This powerful film will ignite even the tiniest spark of feminism in any woman's heart.
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception Not only art lovers will come away with a deeper understanding of the movement and an appreciation for those who stood up and paved the way."
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception Richard Knight for the Windy City Times has a more critical view of the film, explaining, "Hershman Leeson succeeds in her goal to expose and pique the interest of the viewer to the radical feminist artists who used activist tactics to get their work shown, demanding parity with their male counterparts.
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception However, by the time queer film historian B. Ruby Rich starts talking about how the lesbian artists didn't want to identify as artists because that label was considered bourgeois by their female counterparts, the movie has taken on an exclusionary air of its own – just like those 'womyn only' coffeehouses that existed 'back in the day'.
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception So, while the film undercuts some of its own arguments by veering too strongly into the very separatist direction it decries – and annoyingly overlooks the artist's feminist forebears (like O'Keeffe, Nevelson and Kahlo, for example) – !Women Art Revolution does offer plenty of food for thought for everyone."
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!Women Art Revolution, Reception Elisabeth Subrin states that, "Fusing history with memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson enlists multiple visual strategies to produce an elegantly layered visual and sonic web of politics and powerful emotion."
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!Wowow! !Wowow!
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!Wowow! is a collective in Peckham, London.
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!Wowow! Otherwise known as The Children of !Wowow!, they are a group of artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians, who have promoted numerous art events and parties in London and Berlin.
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!Wowow!, History !Wowow!
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!Wowow!, History began in the back of the Joiners Arms in Camberwell in 2003 as a performance night in a pub by Hanna Hanra and Matthew Stone.
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!Wowow!, History In 2004, the collective squatted a large Victorian co-op in Peckham South East London and made it into an artist-run space.
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!Wowow!, History They include fashion designer Gareth Pugh, performance artist Millie Brown, video installation artist Adham Faramawy, James Balmforth and artist Matthew Stone.
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!Wowow!, History Other artists to have shown in the space include Boo Saville, Gareth Cadwallader, Florence & The Machine's Isabella Summers and Ellie Tobin.
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!Wowow!, History In 2003, !Wowow!
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!Wowow!, History organised warehouse parties in Peckham.
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!Wowow!, History At times club nights with 2000 people took place.
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!Wowow!, History One of these was attended by Lauren Bush, the former U.S. President's niece, and her two CIA bodyguards.
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!Wowow!, History The second show by the collective in December 2004 was of paintings, film, photography and performance by recent Slade graduates for a month in the Georgian building at 251 Rye Lane, Peckham, formerly occupied by the Co-op shop, which the artists gutted and refurbished.
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!Wowow!, History The artists, who curated the exhibition together, included Chloe Dewe Mathews with photographs of lidos, Matthew Stone with digital recreations of old paintings, Rachael Haines with surrealist inspired collages and Boo Saville with monkey paintings and biro drawings.
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!Wowow!, History The opening featured shamanistic chanting, a shopping Trolley Mardi Gras, live bands and a recreation of Michael Jackson's video Thriller by performance artist Lali Chetwynd's troupe.
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!Wowow!, History In November 2005, the Children of !Wowow!
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!Wowow!, History organised a week-long event in a large warehouse in Peckham, curated by member Gareth Cadwallader, and in a number of smaller venues in the area, featuring members of the collective and also Mark McGowan.
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!Wowow!, History Events included Stolen Cinema with cult films from a local rental shop, Richard Elms' play Factory Dog, and a Greasy Spoon Art Salon Breakfast presided over by Lali Chetwynd and Zoe Brown.
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!Wowow!, History he week culminated with a party for 1,500 people, with 10,000 bottles of beer, 500 bottles of whiskey, and 13 live bands on stage.
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!Wowow!, History The bands included The So Silage Crew, Ludes, The Long Blondes, and Ivich Lives.
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!Wowow!, History The Amazing squat created its own "distinctly odd harlequin-esque fashion style", through Gareth Pughs' participation.
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!Wowow!, History Hanna Hanra and Katie Shillingford edited Fashion/
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!Wowow!, History Art/ Leisure, a fanzine affiliated with the group.
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!Wowow!, History It was an opportunity to invest in what we believed in, rather than chipping off bits of our soul working as unpaid interns.
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!Wowow!, History The practicalities of not having to work meant that we could be playful with what we did, but some serious ideas came out of that ridiculous house.
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!Wowow!, History Since the Imperials left their original building in 2006, they have organised events in Dresden and also squatted a Kwik Fit Garage in Camberwell for an exhibition.
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!Wowow!, History Millie Brown and Adham Faramawy have organised several art and music events.
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!Wowow!, History These have included an event in March 2007 in Birmingham.
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!Wowow!, History Along with the original group, several other artists and performers exhibited, including Theo Adams, Ben Schumacher, Lennie Lee, and Fayann Smith.
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"...And Ladies of the Club" "...
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"...And Ladies of the Club" And Ladies of the Club" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a women's literary club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town.
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"...And Ladies of the Club" 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.
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"...And Ladies of the Club" 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.
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"...And Ladies of the Club" They marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren.
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"...And Ladies of the Club" Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the club, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their small town and the larger world.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah "Sally" Cochran are invited along with several of the college's female teachers by Mrs. Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the college, to become founding members of a new local society, the Waynesboro Woman's Club.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis The club is intended to promote culture and literature among the educated citizens of the Ohio town, while avoiding controversial subjects such as women's suffrage and other reform movements.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Socially ambitious Sally agrees to join because she believes the club might become important in the town, and wants to establish herself as a serious-minded member of adult society.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Introspective Anne, the class valedictorian, joins in order to support Sally.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Other early members of the Club include Miss Louisa Tucker, a beautiful but cold mathematics teacher who later marries the commencement speaker General Deming; scholarly Amanda Reid, who overcame a poor background to earn a degree from Oberlin and has returned to teach at the Female College; Miss Agatha Pinney, an elderly teacher whose sciatica leads to a secret addiction to the laudanum she is prescribed; Mary, Thomasina and Eliza Ballard, the wife and daughters of a prominent local judge; and the Misses Gardiner, two reclusive spinsters whose nephew, Douglas, attends Princeton and becomes a local attorney and judge.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis The club's membership grows over time to include the daughters, granddaughters, and other relatives of the early members, and other society women, particularly the wives of the town's numerous and often-changing Protestant ministers.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Although the club itself is framed as non-controversial, club meetings and social events sponsored by its members often lead to discussions and conflicts stemming from the widely varying social and political views of the members and their families on subjects such as race, class, ethnic and religious biases, women's rights, labor reform, and the morality of drinking alcohol, attending the theater and celebrating Christmas.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Anne, the daughter of a doctor, is in love with Dr. John "Dock" Gordon, her father's protege and a friend of her late brother Rob who was killed in the Civil War.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Depressed by his war experiences, John gave up his medical practice for several years, but with Anne's encouragement resumes his practice and the two marry.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Anne's father consents to the match, but warns her that John is too affected by the suffering he sees as a doctor and that he is likely to make a poor husband, so Anne will have to be very tolerant.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Sally develops a relationship with John's friend Captain Ludwig Rausch, who has bought a small local rope-making business and begun building it into a large, updated factory.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Although Ludwig is a German immigrant, his ambitions match Sally's and her banker father, approving of his work ethic and prospects, agrees to their marriage.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Thomasina Ballard also makes an unexpected marriage to a church organist as a result of a wedding poem she wrote for Anne.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Over the years, Anne and Sally continue their club activities while raising families.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Anne and John have a son, Johnny, and a daughter, Binny; Sally and Ludwig have a daughter, Elsa, and several sons.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Although John is an intelligent and caring doctor, he is secretly unfaithful to Anne as a way of relieving the pressure of his past war memories and current responsibilities.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Anne eventually finds out, and suspects that John has even fathered a child with his cousin Jessamine Stevens in New Orleans.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Although deeply hurt by John's behavior, Anne, remembering her father's advice, chooses to overlook it and even welcomes Jessamine and her son when they later move to Waynesboro.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Meanwhile, Ludwig becomes a successful industrialist and Sally a prominent local hostess, later taking over the presidency of the club.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Ludwig hires Eliza Ballard as his secretary after she is forced to leave her previous position in her late father's former law firm due to gossiping about partner Doug Gardiner's romance with an Irish Catholic girl whom he later marries.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Despite Eliza's gossip and sharp tongue occasionally causing trouble in the town, she shows a softer side by caring for Ariana McCune, a terminally ill young girl who ran away from her oppressively religious parents.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Miss Pinney's laudanum addiction eventually becomes public knowledge after she appears increasingly disheveled and unable to control her primary school class.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis At the instigation of Louisa Deming, Miss Pinney is forced to retire on a small pension and her laudanum supply is cut off.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Embarrassed and suffering severe withdrawal, she dies of a heart attack while trying to burn herself to death.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Elsa secretly loves her childhood friend Johnny, but Johnny falls in love with the Demings' daughter Julia, who like her mother is beautiful but cold.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Julia is more affectionate towards Johnny's younger sister Binny, who is dazzled by Julia's beauty.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Binny gathers violets on a cold damp morning to make Julia a May basket, and is rewarded by a kiss from Julia, but the dampness brings on an attack of rheumatic fever and Binny dies.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Johnny and Julia marry and have a son, Tucker, while Elsa marries Gib Evans and has a daughter, Jennifer, who becomes Tucker's close friend.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Shortly after the turn of the century, Anne is widowed when John has an accident rushing to help a patient in bad weather, and subsequently dies of pneumonia.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Julia's frigidity causes Johnny to have an affair with his Irish Catholic nurse, Norah O'Neill.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Through Johnny, Norah's younger sister Ellen meets Ludwig and Sally's youngest son Paul.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Ellen and Paul have a secret romance and Ellen becomes pregnant, resulting in Paul quietly marrying her with Ludwig's consent since he is underage.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Although Paul and Ellen are happy, Sally disapproves of the marriage, cuts ties with her son and, in response to a barbed remark by Julia's mother Louisa, informs her about Johnny's affair with Norah.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis As a result, Julia divorces Johnny, moves to California with Tucker, and later marries a wealthy older man who is past the age of having sex.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Johnny, suffering from heart disease and the strain of the divorce, soon dies.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Anne and the other members of the club are unaware that Sally was the one who revealed Johnny's affair to Louisa, and instead think Eliza spread the story.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Sally eventually is reconciled with Paul after he and his family survive a devastating flood.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Ludwig dies and his daughter Elsa takes over as president of the family-owned bank; she also succeeds her mother as president of the club.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Elsa's son Ludwig takes control of his grandfather's company after returning from his service in the Great War, where he was gassed.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Tucker, separated from Jennifer by his parents' divorce, meets her again as an adult when they are both serving in France in the war, he as a medical corpsman and she as a nurse.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis After the war, they marry, and Tucker becomes a doctor and returns to take up his practice in Waynesboro.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis By the 1930s, Sally is suffering from arteriosclerosis and asks Elsa to bring Anne so that she can confess to Anne that she was the one who revealed Johnny's affair.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Elsa talks her out of doing so, noting that Anne is happy with the company of Tucker, Jennifer and their children.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis As a result, Sally has a farewell visit with Anne but does not mention the situation involving Johnny.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis Sally dies soon afterwards.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Synopsis In 1932, right after Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president, Anne, the last surviving founding member of the club, dies and the Club commemorates the end of an era.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Characters Due to the length of the book and its large number of characters, this list is selective.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Characters † denotes a minor character.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing From 1922 to 1930, Santmyer wrote three novels.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing The first two were published to little notice and the third was unpublished.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing She disliked Sinclair Lewis's negative portrayal of small town America in his novel, Main Street, and conceived of Ladies as an antidote.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing However, since she worked full-time, she was unable to write very much before her retirement in 1959.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing A collection of her nostalgic reminiscences of Xenia, Ohio was published as Ohio Town by Ohio State University Press in 1962.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing The director of the Press, Weldon Kefauver, encouraged her to write more.
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"...And Ladies of the Club", Background, Writing In 1976 she submitted eleven boxes containing bookkeeping ledgers, her manuscript of Ladies in longhand.
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