Books to Borrow Martinsburg Community Library Recommends

It is 1902, and Daisy Harriman, socialite wife of a successful New York City banker, is planning to travel from her summer home in Newport, Rhode Island, to Manhattan to run a few errands. She is incensed when she finds out that she cannot stay in any of the luxury hotels because she will be an unaccompanied lady. As she opines to her husband about the unfairness of it all, she has an idea. If men can have their own clubs, such as the Princeton Club and the Union Club, why can't ladies have a club of their own? Shouldn't women also have a place to stay overnight when they come into the city? A...