Papers, ca. 1894-ca. 1919.

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Papers, ca. 1894-ca. 1919.

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Collection consists of manuscripts of perhaps a dozen talks delivered at meetings of the Saturday Morning Club, a women's group established by Julia Ward Howe in 1871 and devoted to the education and self-improvement of its members. Mrs. Means seems to have been particularly interested in foreign literature, the subject of most of her lectures.

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Boston Athenaeum

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Means, Helen Goodell, 1859-1921.

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Boston clubwoman. From the description of Papers, ca. 1894-ca. 1919. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14582290 ...

Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.)

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The Saturday Morning Club was founded by Julia Ward Howe in 1871 for her youngest daughter, Maud, and Maud's friends. The Club, whose purpose was "to promote culture and social intercourse", met on Saturday mornings from November through April, alternating between guest lectures and Club discussions of the previous week's topic. Lecturers included Lucy Stone, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abba Woolson, Annie and James Fields, professors from Harvard University, and many others. (Volume I-10v contains a c...