Complex sentence: Ethylene and Dorothy--became members of the Ladies Literary Club which took the place of the exclusive Blue Tea, as Froiseth put it "the larger scope of the Ladies Literary Club, discontinued the organization (The Blue Tea)".
Split into simpler sentences: Ethylene and Dorothy--became members of the Ladies Literary Club which took the place of the exclusive Blue Tea. As Froiseth put it "the larger scope of the Ladies Literary Club, discontinued the organization (The Blue Tea)".