271 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. abolition. See Woman’s Building Library (Columbian Exposition)— collection, antislavery texts in absence, in American literature, 154, 157, 165, 169 Abzug, Robert H., 128 Adams, Henry, 183 Adams, John Coleman, 198 Adams, Mary Newbury: “Mothers of Literature,”3–4 Addams, Jane, 39; at World’s Congress of Representative Women, 109 African Americans: absence from Columbian Exposition, 47, 156–57, 169, 253nn30,37; absence from social discourse, 157; biographies of, 172; at Cotton States and International Exposition, 210–11; print culture of, 257n78; white representations of, 170–73, 174. See also authors, African American women; women, African American age-of-consent laws, 192 Alabama, contributions to Woman’s Building Library, 63 Alexie, Sherman, 255n56 Allen, Josephine, 48–49, 73 American Library Association (ALA), xiii; cataloging rules, 104–5; Columbian Exposition award, 207; Columbian Exposition exhibit, 3, 85, 90–91, 95, 235n70; conflict with World’s Congress of Librarians, 89, 90, 91; Council, 92; cultural biases of, 16; Executive Board, 90, 91; meeting at Woman’s Building, 8–9, 15, 20–21, 25, 113–14; model library of, 3, 23–24, 25, 26, 84–85, 222n50 American literature: canonical, 61; colonial, 13, 61, 254n47. See also fiction; novels; poetry; regionalism American Woman Suffrage Association, xii Anderson, Benedict, 31 Anderson, John Q., 151 Anthony, Susan B., xii, 241n7; and Centennial Exhibition, 29; and Columbian Exposition planning, 35; at Woman’s Building, 115, 120; at World’s Congress of Representative Women, 109 antisuffragists. See suffrage movement, women opponents of artists, women: at Columbian Exposition, 56, 68, 83, 125 Associated Artists (firm), 68, 70, 82 Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 20, 221n32 Atkinson, Florence: Economía é Higiene Doméstica de Appleton, 197 Austria, contributions to Woman’s Building Library, 52 authors, African American women: Columbian , 176; omission from Woman’s Building Library, 169–70; poets, 173–74, 175–77; in Woman’s Building Library, 16, 108, 110, 153–54, 157, 168–70, 173–78, 187, 258n90. See also women, African American authors, women: association with regionalism, 262n12; Jewish,142, 197, 248n80; of medical texts, 84, 143–44; name authority problems of, 104–5; Native American, 254n44; of New York, 74, 83–84; Palmer’s correspondence with, 49–50, 54; productivity of, 102, 242n16; reformers, 124, 134–36, 138, 149, 150, 174, 192, 250n101; visits to Woman’s Building Library, 113; working-class, 137–38, 247n70. See also Columbian Women’s literature; literature, American women’s; Woman’s Building Library (Columbian Exposition )—collection Badger, Reid, 38 Bagley, Mrs. John, 58 Baldwin, Esther Jerman: Must the Chinese Go?, 195 272 Index Bank, Rosmarie K., 155, 159; on heterotopias, 250n3; on Native Americans, 253n38; on White City, 150 Banks, Nancy Huston, 44, 48, 66 Banta, Martha, 182–83, 265n50 Bates, Clara Doty, 2–3 Baym, Nina, 125, 244n27 Bederman, Gail, 198, 265n50 Beecher, Catherine, 40; works of, 59–60 Bell, Mrs. Erastus L., 53; on Library visitors, 114 Bellamy, Blanche, 56, 108; collection development work, 73, 74–76, 81–84, 234n38; on Distaff Series, 119–20; fund raising by, 70; on liberal education, 107; on New York collection, 83–84; and separate collection requirement, 77, 78–80; work with women’s clubs, 72 belles lettres: in Woman’s Building Library, 122–23; women’s consumption of, 242n16 Biblioteca Femina (Northwestern University), 210 Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 128, 185, 265n52 Blackwell, Elizabeth, 143 Blackwell, Emily, 143 Blake, Lillie Devereux, 146; activism of, 135; platform presence of, 135, 247n64; social novels of, 134–36; suffragist beliefs of, 148; treatment of gender, 247n65.Works: Fettered for Life, 124, 135–36, 149, 247n63; “Our Forgotten Foremothers,”264n34; “The Social Condition of Woman,”247n65; Woman’s Place To-day, 135, 247n63; Woman’s Rights Fables, 135 Blanc, Marie, 33 Blanchard, Mary W., 197 Board of Lady Managers (BLM, Columbian Exposition), xii–xiii; accomplishments of, 150; administrative headquarters of, 20; at ALA meeting, 8; appointments to, 36; appointments to awards juries, 205–6, 267n14; Art Committee, 155; at Columbian Exposition opening, 98; Committee on Assignment of Space, 91; Committee on Classification, 48, 77; Committee on Press and Printing, 97; conflict with Queen Isabella Society, 39, 42, 43, 226n54; creation of, 34, 35, 36; development of Library, 49–64; Dewey’s negotiations for, 92–95; divisions within, 23, 37, 183; Executive Committee, 73, 207; exhibit planning by, 42–43; final meeting, 115; gender issues of, 25–26, 27, 187, 211; on Library catalog, 268n24; and Library’s design, 9; officers of, 37–38; Press Committee, 204; production of...