Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939

by Jacalyn Eddy

Overview

The most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book, shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life.

Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299217938
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	09/25/2006
Series:	Print Culture History in Modern America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jacalyn Eddy is lecturer in humanities at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Table of Contents

<table of contents, p. vii> Contents Introduction 000 1. Troublesome Womanhood and New Childhood 000 2. Protecting Books: Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the Public Library 000 3. Selling Books: Bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahoney 000 4. Making Books: Children's Book Publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman 000 5. Becoming Experts and Friends 000 6. Building Professional Culture 000 7. Triumph and Transition 000 Epilogue 000 <LINE SPACE Notes 000 Bibliography 000

Editorial Reviews

"In selecting six leaders to represent various support pillars for the community of book-women, Eddy has shown them to be not only superstars in a newly competitive field but also net-workers determined to carry out a mission requiring intense collaboration. The costs and payoffs of these women's work—both for them and for us—make dynamic reading."—Betsy Hearne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


“Eddy’s groundbreaking work explores a topic that has had little attention in the scholarly press to date.”—Melanie A. Kimball, SHARP News

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