An independent woman :
Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958.
An independent woman : the autobiography of Edith Guerrier / edited with an introduction by Molly Matson ; foreword by Polly Welts Kaufman. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xxxix, 154 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
A motherless child, 1870-1883 -- Father and daughter, 1883-1891 -- A single woman, 1891-1917 -- On loan to Mr. Hoover, 1917-1919 -- A civil servant, 1919-1945 -- Epilogue, 1945-1950.
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Edith Guerrier (1870-1958) embodied the ideals of the "New Women" who emerged by the thousands in turn-of-the-century America to take advantage of greater economic and educational opportunities for their sex. At the age of twenty-one, she began working with children in a settlement house in Boston's North End, where she soon maintained a reading room and a Boston Public Library delivery station. A pioneer in the new field of librarianship just opening to women, she founded many library clubs and eventually became the supervisor of branch libraries in Boston. Guerrier is perhaps best remembered for her work on behalf of young immigrant women in Boston's North End. Among the numerous "girls" clubs she founded was the Saturday Evening Girls, composed of young women ofJewish and Italian ancestry. Wanting to do more than simply "keep the girls off the street," she devised a plan to enable her charges to become financially self-sufficient. In 1908, with her lifelong companion Edith Brown, she began to develop what eventually became the Paul Revere Pottery. Potters worked an eight-hour day in an airy, healthful atmosphere, and received a decent wage, an annual paid vacation, and a daily hot lunch--all of which were virtually unheard of in the early twentieth-century workplace. Paul Revere Ware today is valued as a collector's item. Guerrier's autobiography has never been published. Her story takes us from her New England girlhood through her years on the midwestern frontier, to her education at Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College, and finally through her odyssey in Boston, where she lived for most of her adult life. Molly Matson provides an introduction that examines Guerrier's life and several careers and discusses the history of turn-of-the-century Boston. In a substantive foreword, Polly Welts Kaufman situates Guerrier's autobiography within the context of recent scholarship on the changing roles of women during this period of American history.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
058526046X 9780585260464 1122053096 9781122053099
Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958.
Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958.
Guerrier, Edith.
Librarians--United States--Biography.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
Feminists--United States--Biography.
Feminists.
Librarians.
Women social reformers.
Autobiografie
Library & Information Science.
Social Sciences.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Z720.G89 / A3 1992eb
020/.92 B
An independent woman : the autobiography of Edith Guerrier / edited with an introduction by Molly Matson ; foreword by Polly Welts Kaufman. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xxxix, 154 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
A motherless child, 1870-1883 -- Father and daughter, 1883-1891 -- A single woman, 1891-1917 -- On loan to Mr. Hoover, 1917-1919 -- A civil servant, 1919-1945 -- Epilogue, 1945-1950.
Use copy
Edith Guerrier (1870-1958) embodied the ideals of the "New Women" who emerged by the thousands in turn-of-the-century America to take advantage of greater economic and educational opportunities for their sex. At the age of twenty-one, she began working with children in a settlement house in Boston's North End, where she soon maintained a reading room and a Boston Public Library delivery station. A pioneer in the new field of librarianship just opening to women, she founded many library clubs and eventually became the supervisor of branch libraries in Boston. Guerrier is perhaps best remembered for her work on behalf of young immigrant women in Boston's North End. Among the numerous "girls" clubs she founded was the Saturday Evening Girls, composed of young women ofJewish and Italian ancestry. Wanting to do more than simply "keep the girls off the street," she devised a plan to enable her charges to become financially self-sufficient. In 1908, with her lifelong companion Edith Brown, she began to develop what eventually became the Paul Revere Pottery. Potters worked an eight-hour day in an airy, healthful atmosphere, and received a decent wage, an annual paid vacation, and a daily hot lunch--all of which were virtually unheard of in the early twentieth-century workplace. Paul Revere Ware today is valued as a collector's item. Guerrier's autobiography has never been published. Her story takes us from her New England girlhood through her years on the midwestern frontier, to her education at Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College, and finally through her odyssey in Boston, where she lived for most of her adult life. Molly Matson provides an introduction that examines Guerrier's life and several careers and discusses the history of turn-of-the-century Boston. In a substantive foreword, Polly Welts Kaufman situates Guerrier's autobiography within the context of recent scholarship on the changing roles of women during this period of American history.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
058526046X 9780585260464 1122053096 9781122053099
Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958.
Guerrier, Edith, 1870-1958.
Guerrier, Edith.
Librarians--United States--Biography.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
Feminists--United States--Biography.
Feminists.
Librarians.
Women social reformers.
Autobiografie
Library & Information Science.
Social Sciences.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Z720.G89 / A3 1992eb
020/.92 B