Article: Bryn Mawr Farmerettes in the Woman's Land Army

Bryn Mawr College issued the following news release:

Journalist Elaine F. Weiss will discuss a little-known facet of the College's history on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. with a lecture in Wyndham's Ely Room. Titled "Bryn Mawr Farmerettes in the Woman's Land Army," the lecture will discuss a movement that recruited thousands of women from cities and college campuses to replace male agricultural workers who served in World War I.

The lecture is drawn from Weiss' recently published book, Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War,which is the first full chronicle of this movement. According to Weiss, scores of Bryn Mawr students served as Land Army "farmerettes," ...

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