Women of Mark

Women of Mark: A History of the Woman's Club of Richmond, Virginia, 1894—1994

By Sandra Gioia Treadway

186 pages, 103 black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 0-88490-183-1 (cloth) $24.95
ISBN 0-88490-182-3 (paper) $16.95

Women of Mark traces the growth of the Woman's Club in Richmond from the dedicated band of fourteen founders to the sixteen hundred members of its centennial year and places the club within the context of women's associations and activities elsewhere in the United States. The story of the club's attempt to remain true to its original educational mission while at the same time adapting to the changing political, economic, and intellectual roles of women in American life will be of interest to general readers as well as to those who study the history of women, Richmond, and the twentieth-century South.

"This book is beautifully made, the photographs add a great deal to the text, and the social historian can find a great deal of food for thought."—Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930