Author: Jane Healey
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781643582962
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other navigate romances and family clashes, cultural prejudices, loss and heartbreak. Through it all one thing is certain - they could not get through it all without their friendship, and the Saturday Evening Girls Club.
The Saturday Evening Girls Club
Author: Jane Healey
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781643582962
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other navigate romances and family clashes, cultural prejudices, loss and heartbreak. Through it all one thing is certain - they could not get through it all without their friendship, and the Saturday Evening Girls Club.
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781643582962
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other navigate romances and family clashes, cultural prejudices, loss and heartbreak. Through it all one thing is certain - they could not get through it all without their friendship, and the Saturday Evening Girls Club.
Art & Reform
Author: Nonie Gadsden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members created the wares: the Saturday Evening Girls (SEG). Local reformers organized this club in 1899 to provide cultural activities for young Italian and Jewish immigrants of Boston's North End. Under the guidance of designer and illustrator Edith Brown, and as a way of helping with difficult family finances, the group soon turned to crafts. Before long, SEG ceramics had caught on, and were being sold through department stores in cities throughout the Eastern United States; though their success was largely curtailed by World War I, the pottery continued to operate until 1942. Today, SEG ware is highly collectible. Art and Reform offers a briskly written, handsomely illustrated introduction to this episode in Boston's cultural history, discussing the role of the SEG club in the life of the city's immigrant community and its ties to education reform and the Arts and Crafts movement. The book presents some 50 examples of the ceramics themselves, mostly by Sara Galner, one of the group's most gifted members, showing the wit, charm, quiet beauty and lasting influence of these remarkable decorative objects.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members created the wares: the Saturday Evening Girls (SEG). Local reformers organized this club in 1899 to provide cultural activities for young Italian and Jewish immigrants of Boston's North End. Under the guidance of designer and illustrator Edith Brown, and as a way of helping with difficult family finances, the group soon turned to crafts. Before long, SEG ceramics had caught on, and were being sold through department stores in cities throughout the Eastern United States; though their success was largely curtailed by World War I, the pottery continued to operate until 1942. Today, SEG ware is highly collectible. Art and Reform offers a briskly written, handsomely illustrated introduction to this episode in Boston's cultural history, discussing the role of the SEG club in the life of the city's immigrant community and its ties to education reform and the Arts and Crafts movement. The book presents some 50 examples of the ceramics themselves, mostly by Sara Galner, one of the group's most gifted members, showing the wit, charm, quiet beauty and lasting influence of these remarkable decorative objects.
The Lonely Girls Club
Author: Suzanne Forster
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460364694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
At an exclusive California prep school,four young girls form a bond that willendure over two decades—a bond builton secrets, scandal and murder…a bondabout to be broken. Mattie, a federal judge…Breeze, a wealthyentrepreneur…and Jane, the first lady of theUnited States, have all enjoyed a meteoric rise tosuccess since their days at the Rowe Academyfor Girls. But now the truth behind the suicide oftheir friend Ivy and the murder of theirheadmistress twenty years ago is no longersafely hidden. The man imprisoned for the murder hasbeen exonerated, and a true crime reporteris relentlessly pursuing a loose thread in thedecades-old cover-up, one that threatens tounravel the women’s pact of silence. Butnone of them anticipated the twisted depthsof the secrets about to be exposed—or howthe truth could shatter all their lives.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460364694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
At an exclusive California prep school,four young girls form a bond that willendure over two decades—a bond builton secrets, scandal and murder…a bondabout to be broken. Mattie, a federal judge…Breeze, a wealthyentrepreneur…and Jane, the first lady of theUnited States, have all enjoyed a meteoric rise tosuccess since their days at the Rowe Academyfor Girls. But now the truth behind the suicide oftheir friend Ivy and the murder of theirheadmistress twenty years ago is no longersafely hidden. The man imprisoned for the murder hasbeen exonerated, and a true crime reporteris relentlessly pursuing a loose thread in thedecades-old cover-up, one that threatens tounravel the women’s pact of silence. Butnone of them anticipated the twisted depthsof the secrets about to be exposed—or howthe truth could shatter all their lives.
The Beantown Girls
Author: Jane Healey
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781643583648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First Published by Lake Union Publishing, 2019.
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781643583648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First Published by Lake Union Publishing, 2019.
House Beautiful
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Saturday Evening Post
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Arts & Crafts
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Includes the most important arts and crafts designers and factories from Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, with examples of their work and current prices.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Includes the most important arts and crafts designers and factories from Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, with examples of their work and current prices.
Kingdom
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Well-read Lives
Author: Barbara Sicherman
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807833088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some wo
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807833088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some wo
Miller's Arts & Crafts
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN: 1784720135
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1071
Book Description
'...one of the most friendly, easygoing and instructive books on the design movement' Chicago Tribune Arts & Crafts is one of the most influential design movements of all time, beginning in the late 19th century and still being explored by designers today. The Arts & Crafts ethos - rejecting mass production and industrialization in favour of individualism, simplicity, honest craftsmanship, respect for materials and good design - had a massive impact on the design of the early 20th century and transformed design sensibilities globally. This invaluable guide covers furniture, ceramics, silver and metalware, glass, textiles, jewellery, books and posters, and includes fascinating profiles of key designers such as William Morris, the Stickleys, Liberty & Co, Tiffany Studios, George Ohr, Rookwood and many more. It comes with a pictorial design directory, price ranges and a wealth of essential information for collectors and anyone wishing to follow William Morris's golden rule of Arts & Crafts: 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.'
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN: 1784720135
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1071
Book Description
'...one of the most friendly, easygoing and instructive books on the design movement' Chicago Tribune Arts & Crafts is one of the most influential design movements of all time, beginning in the late 19th century and still being explored by designers today. The Arts & Crafts ethos - rejecting mass production and industrialization in favour of individualism, simplicity, honest craftsmanship, respect for materials and good design - had a massive impact on the design of the early 20th century and transformed design sensibilities globally. This invaluable guide covers furniture, ceramics, silver and metalware, glass, textiles, jewellery, books and posters, and includes fascinating profiles of key designers such as William Morris, the Stickleys, Liberty & Co, Tiffany Studios, George Ohr, Rookwood and many more. It comes with a pictorial design directory, price ranges and a wealth of essential information for collectors and anyone wishing to follow William Morris's golden rule of Arts & Crafts: 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.'