"...And Ladies of the Club"

"...And Ladies of the Club"
First trade edition (1984)
AuthorHelen Hooven Santmyer
Cover artistfrom Culver Pictures
LanguageEnglish
GenreFamily saga
Publisher
Publication date
  • 1982
  • 1984
  • 1985
Publication placeUnited States
Media type
  • Print (hardback)
  • Print (hardback)
  • Print (paperback)
Pages
  • 1,344 pp
  • 1,176 pp
  • 1,433 pp
ISBN0-8142-0323-X
ISBN 0-399-12965-0
ISBN 0-425-07704-7
OCLC8050632
813/.52 19
LC ClassPS3537.A775 A82 1982

"...And Ladies of the Club" is a 1982 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.

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 each marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. 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.