[1] It was founded by a group of women who were forced to study in Switzerland because no university open to them in the Russian Empire.
It was a literary society for women, which translated and discussed foreign literature.
The Women’s Circle spread across Georgia through local branches.
It is regarded as the starting point of the organized women's movement in Georgia.
In 1905, political organizations was officially permitted in the Russian Empire, and the Women’s Circle was succeeded by a number of openly political women's organizations, such as “Education” (1908), “Georgian Women’s Charity Organization”, “Commission of Tbilisi Women’s Circle”, “Georgian Women’s Society”, “School for Poor Girls”, “Society of Education”, “Society of Knowledge” and “Georgian Unity of Equality for Women” and finally the suffrage organization Inter-Partial League of Women of Kato Mikeladze (1916).