When:
Saturday, November 26, 2022
10:30AM – 11:30AM
Where:
Murphy-Wilmot Library
Description:
The Murphy-Wilmot Book Club is back! Join us on the fourth Saturday of the month to discuss what's hot in fiction and non-fiction. New members are always welcome to drop in on this informal gathering of book lovers.
This month’s selection, The Mad Girls of New York, by Maya Rodale, is a gripping and compelling novel inspired by the true-life events of Elizabeth Cochrane, better known to her readers as Nellie Bly, who will stop at nothing to prove that a woman’s place is on the front page.In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable, and delicate to do the job. But then the New York World challenges her to an assignment she’d be mad to accept and mad to refuse: go undercover as a patient at Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum for women.
Kirkus Reviews called The Mad Girls of New York “an energetic and bold tale of one of history's most enterprising journalists.”'
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