The Sitting Room Library
The Sitting Room Library is a reading room and archive in Penngrove, California, US, that provides the community with access to women's literature and art. History Established in 1981 by June Farver, Jane Flood, Marylou Hadditt, Susan Miller, Karen Petersen, D. A. Powell, D.A. Powell, and J.J. Wilson. Recognizing the lack of access to books by and about women, a call for donations went out, and soon a library was established as a non-profit to house the growing collection of women's literature and other resources. Named the Sitting Room Library, it began in a rented office building in Cotati, California, Cotati, California. In 2004 the library moved to a house in Penngrove, California, Penngrove. Inspired by the Morrison Reading Room at the University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley University Library, the Sitting Room began as a place for women to gather, hold Salon (gathering), salons, and celebrate the cultural contributions of women artists and writers. The library's co ...
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The Sitting Room Entrance
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when fol ...
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