โ Scribed by Louis Auchincloss
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A sparkling and profound consideration of women and power: the power of intellect, of money, of integrity, and of loyalty, love and self-respect. "If I have a bias it is in my suspicion that women are intellectually and intuitively superior to men," writes Christopher Gates, the elegant, sharp-tongued narrator of this book. "But," he adds, "I certainly never thought they were 'nicer.' And I very much doubt that anyone could think so who was raised, as I was, in a society in which the female had so many more privileges than the male." And so he begins to describe the twelve women who--as debutantes-- instituted his mother's "book class" in 1908 and with admirable tenacity met every month for over sixty years to discuss a selected title, old or new. Certainly during their lifetimes these women did not have any real political or economic clout comparable to that of the men of their day. Only Adeline Bloodgood had ever held a regular job, and only Polly Travers, as...
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