Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Fortnightly Club Papers, Accession 6035-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the Library by Mrs. Fillmore Norfleet, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 2, 1992.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection contains the minutes (1984-1992), programs, correspondence, newsclippings, and miscellaneous items of the Fortnightly Club , Charlottesville, Virginia , 1924-1926, and 1965-1992, ca. forty items. The Fortnightly Club began in 1899 as a social club whose members would take turns reading poetry or prose for entertainment during their meetings every two weeks.

The correspondence of the club, 1984-1991, chiefly consists of letters of condolence to the family of deceased members or letters of regretful resignation due to health or age. The newsclippings contain obituaries of the following club members: Hazelhurst Perkins (1881-1981), Edmonia Metcalf (1892-1989), Anne Morris Duke (1905-1988), Nancy Hale Bowers (1908--1988), and Florence Lankford (d. 1990); and a short article by Roy Land about the Fortnightly Club and an article about the Classical Association of Virginia featuring Marian Stocker . Also present in this collection is a booklet Knowledge in a Nutshell by Rosalie Nathan Florance and a paper presented to the Fortnightly Club by Julian Bishko entitled "Victorian Womanhood in the Boys' Historical Novelist G.A. Henty " (May 9, 1978).