Katherine West Scheil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater and coeditor of Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama.

• Introduction: OriginsChapter 1. ReadingChapter 2. The HomeChapter 3. The OutpostChapter 4. Shakespeare and Black Women's ClubsConclusion

In She Hath Been Reading, Scheil exhaustively chronicles the existence and practices of women's Shakespeare clubs in the United States. Her book also presents an alternate narrative of literacy and American life beginning in the late nineteenth and continuing into the twentieth century.... Thus Scheil's book makes the convincing and valuable argument that Shakespeare was a driving force in the formation of American culture at this time.- Katherine Fredlund (Cithara) Scheil offers a fascinating study of American communities of women (1880s–1940s) who read Shakespeare. She has uncovered previously neglected historical records, exploring the origins of these clubs (including those of black women), their range of literary practices, their effects on domestic life, and their outreaches from urban to isolated rural areas.... Using direct quotes from some of the women involved, Scheil follows the lives ofthese club members and reveals how their readings also translated into 'civic, cultural, and educational improvement.'.(Choice)

Katherine West Scheil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater and coeditor of Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama.

• Introduction: OriginsChapter 1. ReadingChapter 2. The HomeChapter 3. The OutpostChapter 4. Shakespeare and Black Women's ClubsConclusion

In She Hath Been Reading, Scheil exhaustively chronicles the existence and practices of women's Shakespeare clubs in the United States. Her book also presents an alternate narrative of literacy and American life beginning in the late nineteenth and continuing into the twentieth century.... Thus Scheil's book makes the convincing and valuable argument that Shakespeare was a driving force in the formation of American culture at this time.- Katherine Fredlund (Cithara) Scheil offers a fascinating study of American communities of women (1880s–1940s) who read Shakespeare. She has uncovered previously neglected historical records, exploring the origins of these clubs (including those of black women), their range of literary practices, their effects on domestic life, and their outreaches from urban to isolated rural areas.... Using direct quotes from some of the women involved, Scheil follows the lives ofthese club members and reveals how their readings also translated into 'civic, cultural, and educational improvement.'.(Choice)

Katherine West Scheil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater and coeditor of Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama.

• Introduction: OriginsChapter 1. ReadingChapter 2. The HomeChapter 3. The OutpostChapter 4. Shakespeare and Black Women's ClubsConclusion

In She Hath Been Reading, Scheil exhaustively chronicles the existence and practices of women's Shakespeare clubs in the United States. Her book also presents an alternate narrative of literacy and American life beginning in the late nineteenth and continuing into the twentieth century.... Thus Scheil's book makes the convincing and valuable argument that Shakespeare was a driving force in the formation of American culture at this time.- Katherine Fredlund (Cithara) Scheil offers a fascinating study of American communities of women (1880s–1940s) who read Shakespeare. She has uncovered previously neglected historical records, exploring the origins of these clubs (including those of black women), their range of literary practices, their effects on domestic life, and their outreaches from urban to isolated rural areas.... Using direct quotes from some of the women involved, Scheil follows the lives ofthese club members and reveals how their readings also translated into 'civic, cultural, and educational improvement.'.(Choice)