“The women met wherever they could get their hands on a few books and some quiet: in empty classrooms, backrooms of bookstores, at friends’ homes, even while working in mills. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the first American reading circles — a precursor to modern book clubs — required little more than a thirst for literature and a desire to discuss it with like-minded women. Journalist Margaret Fuller saw her club as anything but a substitute for embroidery. Instead, she rallied women who were, as she wrote: ‘desirous to answer the great questions. What were we born to do? How shall we do it?’” Learn how women like Margaret Fuller invented the revolutionary idea of reading together HERE.