Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
- ISBN-10
- 1558499288
- ISBN-13
- 9781558499287
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of Massachusetts Press
- Authors
- Sarah Wadsworth, Wayne A. Wiegand
Description
The story of a historic library of womens writing at the 1893 Worlds Fair
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