Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2012
Contributors Author: Sarah Wadsworth
Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Language
English
Number of Pages
288 pp.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
City
Amherst, MA
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Region
United States
Demographics
Women
Chronological Period
1850-1899
ISBN
9781613761915
Annotation

The Women’s Building Library at the 1893 Exposition in Chicago contained over 8,000 volumes of works by women writers. 

Contents: 

  • By invitation only
  • Planning and collection development
  • Empire building
  • Grand opening
  • "To read her is a liberal education"
  • Ghosts and shadows
  • "I will write for the people"