She published her second novel, The Fierce Dispute, in 1929. In 1928, she joined the Xenia Woman's Club. Helen was awarded a B.Litt degree with a thesis on the 18th century British writer Clara Reeve, and returned to Ohio. Three years later, she went on to graduate studies at Oxford University, and published her first novel, Herbs and Apples, in 1925. She returned to Xenia in 1921 to care for her ailing mother, and worked as an assistant professor in the English Department at Wellesley. In 1919, she moved to New York City and worked for Charles Scribner’s Sons as an editorial secretary at Scribner’s Magazine. During this time, she was active in the struggle for women's rights. in English literature and composition, publishing several poems as an undergraduate. She entered Wellesley College in 1914 and graduated four years later with a B.A. She began to write as a child, keeping a diary from age 10, and her ambition was to become a professional writer. As a small child, she moved with her family to Xenia for her father's business. ( From Wikipedia.Helen Hooven Santmyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. The recognition earned its 88-year-old author critical acclaim and literary recognition according to the back cover of the 1985 paperback edition, the novel took Santmyer more than 50 years to write. Originally published by the Ohio State University Press in 1982 and only selling a few hundred copies, the book was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection in 1984, making it a best-seller that year. 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. The book flows through decades, as it chronicles the two women's marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Numerous characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but primary are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 as the book begins are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female Seminary. The book spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 18. Over the years the club evolves into a influential community service organization in the town. And Ladies of the Club, a novel by Helen Hooven Santmyer, recounts the lives of a group of women in Waynesboro, Ohio, who begin a study club.
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