Becoming Alice Millard
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979-8-216-19550-4 (ISBN)
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Women have played a significant role in the book trade since the beginning of printing. Unfortunately, many of them are now lost to history. Still, many articles and books have captured the various roles that women have played as printers, binders, publishers, editors, and booksellers. Less written about is the role of the women in the antiquarian book trade; however, it is an important part of the trade.
Becoming Alice P. Millard is the story of how a largely self-educated young woman from a modest background became an urbane, internationally known antiquarian bookseller when almost no women worked in the high end of the trade, except as catalogers. Although Alice has been written about by many people, this book corrects the many inaccuracies about her that have been published—and persist. Correcting the record has not been easy; Alice spoke little about her past, didn’t keep a diary, and didn’t make copies of her correspondence.
Alice Millard introduced American collectors and librarians to William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and his Doves Bindery and Press. She also worked with important collectors such as Estelle Doheny and William Andrews Clark, Jr. to build their collections. She sold art and antiques as well as books. Her own collection of such books went to the Huntington Library after her death.
Key to understanding Alice Millard’s life is her relationship to books and antiques. This volume considers how she crafted her professional life. Crafted is the key word because Alice was a strong proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. She didn’t just sell items, she created educational and aesthetic experiences by tutoring people about the value of those objects, by holding exhibitions and publishing catalogs, and by inviting people into her pioneering Frank Lloyd Wright home, La Miniatura.
This book presents a more thorough view of Alice Millard’s life than has ever been presented before. It corrects commonly perpetuated myths, and dispels some of the fog enveloping her life.
Michèle Valerie Cloonan is Professor and Dean Emerita at Simmons University. Previously she was associate professor and chair in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Cloonan specializes in the preservation of cultural heritage, and women in the book trade. Two of her books have won prizes: Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age received the Society of American Archivists Preservation Publication Award, and The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World, won the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize. Her recent article, “Researching the Personal Life: Mary Niles Maack’s Early Writing on Feminist Biography,” appeared in Library Trends. She has an A.B. from Bennington College, an A.M. from the University of Chicago, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. She received the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award from the iSchool at the University of Illinois.
Dedication
Foreword, by Carol Sandberg
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Finding Alice Millard
Chapter 2: Alice, George, and Roxana Millard
Chapter 3: Marriage of Minds
Chapter 4: Ties That Bind: Alice’s Networks
Chapter 5: From Boarding Houses to the Wright Houses
Chapter 6: The Business of Life and the Life of Business
Chapter 7: Alice’s Faith
Chapter 8: Alice and Her Lasting Contributions to the Book Trade
Appendix A: Variant lists of The Alice and George Millard Collection Illustrating the Evolution of the Book at the Huntington Library
Appendix B: Alice’s Clients and their Books
Illustrations & Credits
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.8.2027 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 35 bw illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-216-19550-4 / 9798216195504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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