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The '''Hroswitha Club''' was a membership-based club of women bibliophiles and collectors based in [[New York City]], active from 1944-1999.
==Founding==
Records of the Club's correspondence, and members including [[Belle da Costa Greene]], activities are found principally at the Grolier Club under two collections. A monograph about Hroswitha was edited by [[Anne Lyon Haight]], and published by the Club.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq9xwr|title=Hroswitha Club|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Social Networks and Archival Context. SNAC ID: 57966889|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name="HroClubFA" /> Additionally, the [[Princeton University Library]] holds an address to the Club on the occasion of their visit by scholar and collector [[Miriam Young Holden|Miriam Y. Holden]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://librarianofbabel.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/women-collectors-in-their-own-words/|title=Women Collectors in Their Own Words|last=Hastings|first=Emi|date=16 September 2014|website=Adventures in Book Collecting|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/08/archives/miriam-y-holden-83-activist-and-collector.html|title=Miriam Y. Holden, 83, Activist and Collector|last=|first=|date=8 January 1977|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref><br />▼
The Hroswitha Club was founded in 1944 by a group of women bibliophiles including [[Sarah Gildersleeve Fife]], and named in named in honor of [[Hrotsvitha]] of Gandersheim, a 10th-century German secular [[Canoness|canoness]], dramatist and poetess.<ref name="HroClubFA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.grolierclub.org/default.aspx?p=v35ListDocument&ID=755370972&listid=11461&listitemid=122614&ssid=322536&dpageid=&listname=|title=Hroswitha Club: Records and Publications, 1944-1999|last=|first=|date=|website=The Grolier Club. Finding Aids.|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref> At the time of the club's founding, women bibliophiles were not allowed membership in, and were in fact denied access to, the [[Grolier Club]], the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. (This policy was in place until 1976.)
==Activities==
Members of the Hroswitha club organized talks, research and visits to book collecting institutions both private and public. The Club published several works throughout the 20th century, including a 1965 monograph about Hroswitha entitled ''Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times and Works,'' edited by [[Anne Lyon Haight]] with contributions from other Club members.<ref name="HroClubFA" />
▲Records of the Club's correspondence, and members including [[Belle da Costa Greene]], activities are found principally at the Grolier Club under two collections.
==External links==
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