[1] The Hroswitha Club was founded in 1944 by a group of women bibliophiles: Sarah Gildersleeve Fife (who convened the group), Belle da Costa Greene, Anne Lyon Haight, Ruth S. Granniss, Eleanor Cross Marquand, Henrietta C. Bartlett and Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt.
[6] Some notable members were Sarah Gildersleeve Fife, Anne Lyon Haight,[8] Belle da Costa Greene, Frances Hooper, Ruth S. Granniss (librarian to the Grolier Club), Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, Rosamond B. Loring, Eleanor Cross Marquand, and Shakespeare scholar Henrietta C.
They exchanged ideas, carried out research, and organized talks and visits to book collecting institutions both private and public.
In 1948 Belle da Costa Greene, one of the few professional women then in the club, organized a visit to the Pierpont Morgan Library, giving group members access to the vault of rare materials.
[3] Additionally, the Princeton University Library holds an address to the Club on the occasion of their visit by scholar and collector Miriam Y.