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The Club maintained its own private library, established in 1948 and later named the Sarah
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Hroswitha Club included authors, bibliographers, librarians, curators, and private collectors. They exchanged ideas, carried out research, and organized talks and visits to book collecting institutions both private and public. In 1948 Belle da Costa Greene, one of the few professional
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Hroswitha Club included authors, bibliographers, librarians, curators, and private collectors. Individual members had a wide range of collecting interests - they collected books not just about Hroswitha, but also
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with contributions from other Club members. Members carried out original research, establishing the dates that
Hroswitha's dramas were performed. The Club also commissioned a life of Hroswitha, by
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Notes on woman printers in Colonial America and the United States, 1639-1975.
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The Hroswitha Club was founded in 1944 by a group of women bibliophiles:
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The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book Collectors.
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