This absorbing fiction beautifully depicts social life and customs in a small town in America. It revolves around a newly found women's club in Manville, known as “The Morning Club.” Filled with amusing characters and a gripping plot, this work makes an interesting read. Social life and customs, Fiction, American literature, Women, Villages, New England, Societies, and clubs Excerpt from “ ""Ezra, this is a morning long to be remembered,” said Mrs. Tweedie, as she looked up from the undulating top of a huge cake which, with the skill of a professional plasterer, she was bedaubing with a dark brown paste. “I hope so, my dear,” her husband replied, smilingly, as he put his paper aside. “Sometime this house may bear a tablet of bronze,” continued Mrs. Tweedie, “on which, in effect, will be graven that here was founded by the women of Manville an organization that startled the community.” «My only regret is that I shall not be here to see it—I mean the tablet, of course,” said Ezra.
