She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

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223 Page numbers followed by letter f indicate figures. Abbott, Frances M., 21, 51, 152n86, 168n120 Aberdeen, South Dakota, Shakespeare Club, 157n150, 157n158 Abraham, Spencer, 113 adaptations of Shakespeare, 47–50, 54 Addams, Jane, 178n58 African Americans: Chautauqua program and, 102, 104; co-ed clubs of, 105, 109–10; and communal reading, 164n48; and performances of Shakespeare, 98, 107, 108, 188n3; and racial uplift, 96–97, 98, 106–11; as readers of Shakespeare, 98–101, 115, 181n83, 192n40. See also under black women Alabama: Shakespeare clubs in, 123; traveling libraries in, 186n63. See also specific cities/towns Alpena, Michigan, Ladies’ Shakespeare Class, 90 American culture, Shakespeare’s place in, 121–22, 141n2; black readers and, 115; frontier experience and, 79–82, 94; Shakespeare clubs and, xii, 30, 157n165 American Shakespeare Magazine, 6, 14, 16, 49, 152n95 Anderson, Douglas, 174n5, 176n17 Anne Hathaway Shakespeare Club of Philadelphia , 5, 38, 55f Anne Hudgins Shakespeare Class of Marietta, Georgia, xvi, 156n140, 200n7; origins of, 82; scrapbooks of, 75–76; Twelfth Night ceremony of, 77 archival materials, Shakespeare clubs and, xiv–xv, 26–27, 30 Arden Club of Topeka, Kansas, 105, 188n4 Arizona, Shakespeare clubs in, 80, 123–24 Arkansas: black women’s clubs in, 106–7, 195n88; Shakespeare clubs in, 59, 124 Armstrong, Alice, 10, 23–24 Armstrong, Elizabeth, ix Athenian Literary Society of Topeka, Kansas, 106 Atlanta, Georgia: Chautauqua Circle of, 102; Shakespeare Club of, 164n50 Auburn, Alabama, N.T. Lupton Conversation Club of, 6–7, 147n34 Avon, Illinois. See under Portia Club Avon Bard Club, New Rochelle, New York, 27 Avon Club of Concord, New Hampshire, 37 Avon Club of Topeka, Kansas, 74 Ayers, Alice, 155n133 Azermendi, Candace, 156n140 Badia, Janet, 158n2 Balcam, Lucia C., 11 Bald Eagle, Minnesota, Shakespeare Club, 93 Banks, Emma Dunning, 11 Bankside Edition of Shakespeare, 4 Barber, J. Max, 102 Barnesville, Georgia, Woman’s Shakespearean Club, 10, 43; civic work of, 59, 79, 121; intellectual work of, 13, 164n53; origins of, 23; reactions to Shakespeare’s heroines, 52; records of, 77; town history and, 181n2 Baskin family, 69, 178n46 Bateman, Lillian, xvi bawdy content, club women’s response to, 50–52, 168n116 Baym, Nina, 199n4 Bay View Reading Circle program,107,150n71 Beecher, Catharine, 62 Bell, Charlotte J., 53 Bell, Philip A., 100 Belleville, Kansas, Shakespeare Club, 25 Benton Harbor, Michigan, Ossoli Club, 33 Besnier, Niko, 145n4, 158n2, 161n15, 165n71, 166n89, 174n5 Bethel Literary and Historical Association of Washington, D.C., 108–9 Birmingham, Alabama, Pieria Literary Society, 169n122  Index 224 INDEX Bishop, Mrs. C.B., 53 Bissell, Emily, 56 Black Hills of South Dakota, women’s clubs in, 63, 80, 82 black women’s clubs: civic work of, 95, 112; criticism of, 113, 198n128; in Durham, North Carolina, 109–11; and education, commitment to, 95–96, 111; generational continuity in, 112–13; in Little Rock, Arkansas , 106–7, 195n88; origins of, 188n6; paucity of materials on, 103; and progressive agenda, 101, 111; and racial uplift, 96–97, 106–11, 114, 189n9, 190n16; social change vs. self-education in, 113–15, 198n129; state federations of, 189n12, 192n35; study of Shakespeare in, 95, 97, 102–11, 188n4, 191n26; in Topeka, Kansas, 98, 104–6, 194n67, 194n68; white women’s clubs compared to, 96, 115–16, 189n9, 189n11, 191n22 black women’s periodicals,Shakespeare in,101–2 Blair, Karen J., 161n18 Blair, Nebraska, Monday Afternoon Club, 199n7 Bolt, Christine, 141n5, 148n42 Booklovers Club of Washington, D.C., 109 Book-of-the-Month Club, 164n49 booktalk, 42–45, 57 Booth, Rev. G. C., 106 Boston Saturday Morning Club, 46 Bourland, Clara, 151n80 Bowling Green, Ohio, Shakespeare Round Table Club, 27, 58, 66, 178n48 Boyarin, Jonathan, 161n20 Brady, Marilyn Dell, 194n68 Briggs, John C., 192n40 Brimfield, Massachusetts, Public Library, 93 Bristol, Michael, 142n10, 162n30 Brooklyn, New York: Portia Reading Group of, 9, 22, 54; Shakespeare Club of, xiv, 6, 43–44, 46, 164n53 Brooks, Susan M., 26 Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 116 Brown, Leslie, 197n113 Brown, Nettie Arthur, 53 Brown, Stephen J., 142n10 Browning, Robert, 17 Browning societies, 17–18, 111, 153n104 Bryant Shakespeare Correspondence School, 152n95 Buckner, Mrs. Robert, 95, 105 Buckner, Robert, 187n1 Burlington, Kansas, Traveler’s Club, 87 Burton, Robert Wilton, 6 Butte,Montana,West Side Shakespeare Club,91 California: Shakespeare clubs in, 124–25; state federation of women’s clubs in, 9; traveling libraries in, 92. See also specific cities/towns Cambridge, Massachusetts, Shakespeare Club, 68. See also Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association Camden,Maine,Shakespeare Club,90,182n3 Carlson, Shirley J., 97 Carruthers, Mary, 163n45 Celina, Ohio...