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In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the town and gathering at a female-only Residence known as The American Girls' Club in Paris. Opened in 1893, The Club was the center of expatriate living and of dedication to a calling in the fine arts, and singularly harbored a generation of independent, talented, and driven American women. Now in The Club , curator, art historian, and podcast host Jennifer Dasal presents the never-before-told story of the Club, the philanthropists who created it, and the artists it housed. These women forged connections in the arts and letters with luminaries like Auguste Rodin and Gertrude Stein or became activists through their relationships with the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst. But just as importantly, these women's lives revealed the power of the Club itself, and the way that having a safe home for single women of ambition allowed them to grow as teachers, artists, suffragists, and people. For readers interested in women's lives as captured in books like The Barbizon , art history buffs who loved Ninth Street Women , and armchair travelers longing to visit Belle Époque Paris, The Club is a captivating, colorful new history.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781639731305","publication_date":"20250715","publisher":"Bloomsbury","slug":"the-club","subtitle":"Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris","title":"The Club"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"ART015100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Modern Art History (to 1945)","score":0.7607,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Contemporary Art History (1945-)","score":0.7344,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART006020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Permanent Collections","score":0.7128,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"ART015100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Modern Art History (to 1945)","score":0.7607,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART015110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Contemporary Art History (1945-)","score":0.7344,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"ART006020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Permanent Collections","score":0.7128,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"ART015100","confidence_band":"high","label":"Modern Art History (to 1945)","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BIO001000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Artists' Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS013000","confidence_band":"high","label":"French History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Modern Art History (to 1945)","score":0.7607,"slug":"modern-art-history-to-1945"},{"label":"Contemporary Art History (1945-)","score":0.7344,"slug":"contemporary-art-history-1945"},{"label":"Permanent Collections","score":0.7128,"slug":"permanent-collections"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in women’s lives and art history","Armchair travelers drawn to Belle Époque Paris"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Mary Alice Monroe"],"book_id":"9781488084324","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781488084324.jpg?v=73d9877b6533ea97","score":0.6993,"title":"The Book Club","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781488084324"},{"authors":["Marie Bostwick"],"book_id":"9781400344741","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781400344741.jpg?v=a15ebbe7b06107ee","score":0.6954,"title":"The Book Club for Troublesome Women","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781400344741"},{"authors":["Michelle Young"],"book_id":"9780063295896","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063295896.jpg?v=7c37e58ad09225c7","score":0.685,"title":"The Art Spy","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063295896"},{"authors":["Kate Quinn"],"book_id":"9780063244757","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063244757.jpg?v=7b2134971a865c2a","score":0.683,"title":"The Briar Club","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063244757"},{"authors":["Tilar J. 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