Hope springs, however, with a town initiative to create a mobile library. Despite the family’s riches and Bennett’s initial charm, Alice soon finds herself in a loveless marriage in a boring town. She marries Bennett Van Cleve Bennett’s father, Geoffrey Van Cleve, owns Hoffman Mining Company. This study guide refers to the Penguin Random House hardcover first edition.Īlice Wright moves from England to Baileyville, Kentucky, with dreams of getting married and starting a fruitful life. Themes of friendship, the effects of misogyny, corporate greed, inequality, and rebirth fill the pages of this novel. The women face the adversity of a town hellbent on determining what women can and can’t do, both in their public and private lives.
The real-life WPA Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky program, part of the New Deal and a project spotlighted by Eleanor Roosevelt as beneficial to women and children, lasted from 1935-1943, delivering books via horseback to rural inhabitants of Kentucky.
Set in Depression-era America, the novel chronicles the lives of female librarians in Baileyville, a town in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains.
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