![]() 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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