Between the First and Second World Wars, University of Kentucky
women (students, alumnae, faculty, and faculty spouses, published poems in Letters, the campus literary magazine
and in the Kentucky Kernel. Many of the poems explored the contradictions in women’s lives, their views toward careers and marriage, and expressions of
freedom.
Perhaps more than anything the automobile changed both the perception and the reality of women’s lives during this period. Cars offered a degree of freedom not previously experienced by women, and they quickly realized and understood the extent of this change. It also provided women a means of transportation without depending on men or public transportation. Writing in Letters in the summer of 1930, Louise Good, a member of the University Scribbler's Club and Chair of Literature for the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs, aptly described this sense of freedom for women:
My Automobile
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