Jean Lee Cole, Professor of English at Loyola University of Maryland, will join us via Zoom to discuss a new anthology, Parole Femine: Words and Lives of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore (2019).

Members of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore, founded in 1890, met weekly for five decades to share their writing. Club members published over a thousand novels, poems, short stories, plays, and histories. Cole leads a team of undergraduate students supported by an Aperio grant from Loyola University Maryland's Center for the Humanities in transcribing and interpreting these papers and the writings produced by member of the Club. In addition to a website housing a digital repository of the papers of the Club, they have published an anthology of writings by Club members, Parole Femine: Words and Lives of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore (2019).