Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the college, to become founding members of a new local society, the Waynesboro Woman's Club. 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. 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. They marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. 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. 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 18. ".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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