Libraries in Literature by Alice Crawford & Robert Crawford

Author:Alice Crawford & Robert Crawford [Crawford, Alice & Crawford, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192668264
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

1 Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women (1868–9; repr. Boston: Little, Brown, 1934), 40, 55; for Alcott on library reading see Emily Hamilton-Honey, ‘Guardians of Morality: Librarians and American Girls’ Series Fiction, 1890–1950’, Library Trends 60.4 (Spring 2012): 771–2.

2 Henry James, The Bostonians (London: Macmillan, 1886), 240, 241.

3 ‘Librarians in Congress’, Times, 6 October 1877, 10.

4 ‘Librarians in Congress’, 10.

5 ‘International Congress of Women’, Times, 5 July 1899, 10.

6 See, for example, Christopher Brown-Syed and Charles Barnard Sands, ‘Some Portrayals of Librarians in Fiction – A Discussion’, Education Libraries, 21.1–2 (1997): 17–24; Jon Noble, ‘From Tom Pinch to Highliber Zavora: The Librarian in Fiction’, Orana, 37.3 (November 2001): 23–8; noteworthy library students’ dissertations include several written by Master of Library and Information Science students at Kent State University and now available online: Margaret A. Elliott, The Librarian’s Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980–1995: Has the Image Changed? (1996); Barbara Kitchen, Librarian’s Image in Children’s Fiction (2000). Also available online is Virginia Vesper’s 1994 report for Middle Tennessee State University, The Image of the Librarian in Murder Mysteries in the Twentieth Century (1994). Grant Burns, Librarians in Fiction: A Critical Bibliography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998).

7 Katharine Ruth Ellis, The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1909).

8 Ellis, The Wide Awake Girls, 12, 10, 12.

9 Ellis, The Wide Awake Girls, 22.

10 ‘The Wide-Awake Girls of [sic] Winsted’, Journal of Education, 70.16 (28 October 1909): 441.

11 Herman Melville, Moby Dick, or, The Whale (1851; repr. London: Constable, 1922, 2 vols), I, xii.

12 Melvil Dewey, ‘The Ideal Librarian’, quoted in full, The Library Journal 24.1 (1899):14.

13 Josephine Dodge Daskam, Whom the Gods Destroyed (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902), 161, 175, 182.

14 Winston Churchill, Coniston (1906; New York: Macmillan, 1907), 8.

15 Dorothy Canfield, ‘Hillsboro’s Good Luck’, in Hillsboro People, by Dorothy Canfield (New York: Holt, 1915): 187–206. Page references in this chapter are to this edition. Originally published in Atlantic Monthly 102 (July 1908): 131–9.

16 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 197, 198.

17 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 188.

18 Janis P. Stout, ‘Dorothy Canfield, Willa Cather, and the Uncertainties of Middlebrow and Highbrow’, Studies in the Novel, 44.1 (2012): 27, 28.

19 Jaime Harker, America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 23.

20 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 197.

21 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 199, 205.

22 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 197.

23 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 202.

24 Canfield, Hillsboro People, 202.

25 Edith Wharton, Summer: A Novel (London: Macmillan, 1917); Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (New York: [s.n.,] 1920.

26 Elizabeth I. Folsom, ‘Natural Selection’, in As We Are: Stories of Here and Now, ed. W. B. Pitkin (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1923), 47–72 (first publication).

27 John Rees wrote under the name ‘John Llewelyn Rhys’; ‘Jane Oliver’ [obituary], Times, 8 May 1970, 12.

28 ‘New Fiction’, Scotsman, 27 March 1933, 2.

29 Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford, Business as Usual (London: Collins, 1933).

30 Oliver, Business as Usual, 126.

31 Jane Oliver, ‘Ann Stafford’, Times, 29 September 1966, 14.

32 E. M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady (London: Macmillan, 1930).

33 Oliver, Business as Usual, 56.

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