Female Advocacy and Harmonious Voices: A History of Public Library Services and Publishing for Children in the United States

This article uses a feminist standpoint to examine the beginnings of library service to children in this country and the women instrumental in designing that service. It also examines the complex institutional and interpersonal relationships among these female librarians and the women who founded children's publishing. Together these two groups of women, as advocates both for children and for books, set forth a vision of service bringing the two together.

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