 The club was organized in New York City with 12 members in March 1868, by Jane Cunningham Croly.Among its founding members were Josephine Pollard, a children's author, and Fanny Fern, a popular columnist who had been angered at newspaper women being excluded from the all-male New York Press Club when it had an honorary dinner for the author Charles Dickens the month before.Sorosis was incorporated in January 1869.