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Monday, September 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Montclair Women's Club,
82 Union Street, Montclair NJ

This venue is handicap accessible. Parking is available behind the building and on the street.
Light refreshments, coffee and tea will be served.
The program is free for members, and $10 for guests.
 

“This is the woman's century” wrote the journalist Mary Marsh in the Ocean Grove Record, “…she has evolved from slavery into self-rule and self-support… and she has come to stay.” The year was 1893 and Miss Marsh bore witness to the entrepreneurial female population in this small Victorian town. She lived among women who were physicians, international evangelists, authors, store owners, temperance and suffrage leaders, faith healers, landlords, teachers and hotel managers. Twenty-seven years before women gained the right to vote, the camp-meeting town of Ocean Grove was a place of hope and opportunity for these women in the late nineteenth century.

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Lyndell O’Hara, PhD, is recently retired after teaching history for 35 years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her main areas of research have been the intersection of women and religion both in sixteenth century England and nineteenth century America.

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