It changed the course of many of these young women’s lives in the best possible ways. The club was founded by North End Librarian Edith Guerrier and Boston philanthropist Helen Storrow. I first learned about the club when I wrote an article about their namesake pottery for Boston Magazine years ago. It’s based on an actual group of young Italian and Jewish immigrant women in Boston’s North End at the turn of the 20th century.
My debut novel is called The Saturday Evening Girls Club. JANE HEALEY: A huge thank you to the Jungle Red Writers for letting me be a guest blogger for the day! (PS: TSEGC was named one of Redbook Magazine’s “20 Books You Need to Take to the Beach this Summer”) It often has the sweetest, most whimsical design and was handmade by mid-century immigrant women at a time when there were few other ways for them to make a living. She was talking to fans and showing off her brand new book, The Saturday Evening Girls Club.Īnd she had a piece of Saturday Evening Girls pottery on the table in front of her.
The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice.HALLIE EPHRON: I had the pleasure of meeting Jane Healey at a Christmas fair. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition._x000D_ Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future._x000D_Īmbitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy.
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