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acknowledgments / ix Introduction / 3 1. Troublesome Womanhood and New Childhood / 15 2. Protecting Books: Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the Public Library / 30 3. Selling Books: Bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahony / 49 4. Making Books: Children’s Book Publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman / 65 5. Becoming Experts and Friends / 87 6. Building Professional Culture / 118 7. Triumph and Transition / 138 Epilogue / 158 notes / 169 bibliography / 197 index / 207 contents ...

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