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The Club

Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris

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The Club

Auteur(s): Jennifer Dasal
Narrateur(s): Jennifer Dasal
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 Bloomsbury presents The Club written and read by Jennifer Dasal, host of the hit podcast ArtCurious.

"Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation." —Michael Finkel, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Art Thief

A deliciously entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914.

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 those 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.©2025 Jennifer Dasal (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Art Art et littérature Artistes, architectes et photographes Europe Femmes France
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This was a very enjoyable listen, well researched. Lots of information in this book that I have not found in other books about the art scene in Paris at the time. The stories of these young women arriving in Paris, finding their way around, meeting their peers, and finding spaces to work were well described.

It was a bit strange not to hear the dark underbelly of the story. It was all a bit rosy, when I am sure there were liaisons, losses, broken hearts and more than a few pregnancies. That said, lesbian relationships were explored. I don’t know, it just left me wondering.

I’m normally not keen on authors narrating their own books, but she did a pretty good job, to the extent I forgot it was self-narration fairly early on.

Annoyingly, there is no PDF accompaniment. I was able to look at the map showing the location of the Club in Paris in a preview of the Kindle version, but nowhere is there a list of the women artists profiled in the book, as it seems part of the motivation behind writing the book was to raise the profile and awareness of women artists, this is profoundly disappointing.

I did relisten to the Afterlives Appendix (to note some names), but later learned it was abridged from the print/Kindle book. I was particularly concerned about this, as the book is marketed as unabridged.

I had hoped for a refund from Audible, in order to buy the Kindle to get the full artist list (as I wasn’t going to pay for two versions), but they were not forthcoming. I will continue to watch for the Kindle to be on sale, so I can access the full list.

As the audiobook doesn’t include a list of artists, I’ve pieced one together below. I am sharing it to save others the effort!

Included in the book (I had to build this from relistening, then researching spellings - it could very well be incomplete):
Birgitta Moran Farmer
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Anne Goldthwaite
Anna McNulty Lester
Florence Lundborg
Alice Edith Rumph
Elizabeth Taylor
Frances Quarles Thomason
Grace Turnbull
Mary Rogers Williams
Alice Morgan Wright
Enid Yandell
Marguerite Thompson Zorach

Also stayed at the Club (from my research)
Blondelle Malone
Emma Cheves Wilkins

Other American women who studied in Paris in this era (Club status unknown)
Ellen Kendall Baker
Constance Bigelow
Lucy Lee-Robbins
Margaret Foster Richardson

Audiobook edition information (from the version in my Audible collection):

The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
Written by: Jennifer Dasal
Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal
FORMAT Unabridged Audiobook (questionable as Afterlives appendix is abridged)
LENGTH 8 hrs and 49 mins
PUBLISHER Bloomsbury Publishing

©2025 Jennifer Dasal (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Excellent book… but no artist list!

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