Papers, 1868-1937 (inclusive) [Microform].

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Papers, 1868-1937 (inclusive) [Microform].

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Executive committee minutes, 1884-1907; minutes, 1868-1937.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Sorosis (New York, N.Y.)

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Sorosis is an organization of professional and literary women founded in New York City in 1868. Columnist "Jennie June" (Jane C. Croly) and other women journalists were denied tickets to a New York Press Club event honoring Charles Dickens. The presenters claimed that the presence of the women would make the occasion "promiscuous." Offended, the female journalists founded their own press club, naming it Sorosis after a botanical term referring to plants with a grouping of flowers t...