@article{7831, author = {Evelyn Kerslake}, title = {My Famous Kate Pierce: Biographies of and in the Archive}, year = {2000}, journal = {Vitae Scholasticae}, volume = {19}, pages = {35-58}, note = {

Kate Edith Pierce (1873 – 1966) was a British librarian and early advocate of open shelf libraries.  The author uses her life to explore critiques of conventional approaches to historical biography.

Sections

  1. The Story of the Archive
  2. Doubling: The Story in the Archive

i. Kate Pierce: "A Senior Member of the Profession"
ii. Kate Pierce: Library Feminist?

Positioned Truth: Kate Pierce, Feminism, and the Biographer

 

}, language = {English}, }