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  <title><![CDATA[Can Any Mother Help Me?]]></title>
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  <default_description>When, in 1935, a young woman wrote this letter to the women's magazine &quot;Nursery World&quot; women from all over the country wrote back expressing similar frustrations. These women were educated and ambitious but many of their careers had been cut short by marriage. They were full of ideas and opinions but had nowhere to express them. So they decided to start a private magazine. &quot;The Cooperative Correspondence Club&quot; was to be a bi-monthly publication made up of articles written by the members on subjects close to their heart. Jenna Bailey has brought together this intimate and moving collection of personal stories following an extraordinary group of women.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating, moving book about a group of mothers who set up a correspondence club in the 1930s, writing a private magazine each month, circulated among members, about every aspect of their lives. Amazingly, the group carried on until 1990. A lot of the original articles are included and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20398956">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeling you would like this book, Gina.<br/><br/>We read it as part of my book reading group.  It's a really interesting piece of social history.  It's about a group of women who formed a secret correspondence club in the 1930s, and continued it throughout most of the twentieth century.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47672516">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a correspondence club originally formed by a disparate group of mothers in the 1930s.  The club continued until the 1980s, when the members became too few and/or too ill to continue.<br/><br/>Jenna Bailey came on the story of this group of women, initially strangers, who became friend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14979507">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 22 17:11:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thoroughly enjoyed this collection of letters between a group of mothers dating from mid 1930's onwards.  An eye-opening picture of life through every stage of life.  Fantastic to read about the solidarity and support enjoyed by this group of very eclectic women.  How things and attitudes have chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16970470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I dipped into this book rather than read it straight through.  Fascinating slice of social history that tells the story of several women who correspondended with each other via a magazine from the 1930s to the 1980s.  So interesting to see how they coped with motherhood and it's demands, their attit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11546426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An engrossing book, based on personal narratives from young mothers in the early half of the 20th century. I love that these women found a way to create a private dialogue over great distances, about the supremely mundane and the profoundly political. Quite inspiring.]]></body>
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