The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

 In 1963, Margaret Ryan has decided that the best way to meet her neighbors in the privileged planned suburb of Concordia, VA is to start a book club. Enter outsider Charlotte Gustafson and her book suggestion, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.  Subversive? Enlightening? It is at the very least disruptive to Margaret, Charlotte. Bitsy (who is the horse trainer for Katharine Graham of the Washington Post) and Vivian ( mother of many who adores her enlightened husband).  Each finds a path from keeping up appearances to individual strength.  I was 14 in 1963 and this was not yet on my book shelf. I am sure it was never on my mother's. But this was as interesting a look at the journey from Mrs. to Ms. as was Lessons in Chemistry.