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The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

by Dorothy Wickenden (Author) (edit contributors)

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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their soci-ety luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they... read more

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  • “To be happy it is necessary to to be constantly giving to others. I do not mean to give in work alone - but all of your self. That means interest in other people - not only by affection - but by kindness.”
    Dorothy Woodruff
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  • “We were nothing daunted,” Ros recalled, “and spent the night in grandeur at the Brown Palace Hotel … the hottest night I ever spent in my life.”
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  • (Oberlin became the first coeducational college in the country in 1837, when it enrolled four women. Two years earlier, it had admitted its first African-American students.)
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  1. Dorothy Wickenden (Author) - the executive editor of The New Yorker magazine

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Page Count: 286

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