Becoming Alice Millard: Bookseller and Tastemaker
Autor Michèle V. Cloonanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2027
În cadrul programelor de studiu dedicate istoriei cărții și biblioteconomiei, analiza rolului femeilor în comerțul cu antichități a rămas, până recent, o zonă insuficient explorată. Becoming Alice Millard vine să acopere această lacună, oferind o biografie riguroasă a unei figuri centrale care a definit gusturile colecționarilor americani la începutul secolului XX. Reținem că această lucrare nu este doar o cronică biografică, ci un efort de recuperare istorică; Michèle V. Cloonan reconstruiește parcursul unei femei care, deși autodidactă, a reușit să se impună într-o sferă profesională dominată exclusiv de bărbați.
Cartea completează perspectiva oferită de Gender and the Book Trades de Elise Watson, adăugând o dimensiune biografică aplicată și corectând miturile perpetuate despre Millard în absența unor documente personale, precum jurnalele. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum Libraries, Archives, and Museums Today, Michèle V. Cloonan se concentra pe impactul tehnologiei asupra patrimoniului, aici autorul își folosește expertiza pentru a evidenția modul în care Millard a transformat vânzarea de cărți într-o experiență estetică și educațională, integrând mișcarea Arts and Crafts în prezentările din casa sa celebră, La Miniatura.
Structurată în opt capitole ce urmăresc evoluția de la viața de familie la consolidarea afacerii, volumul oferă instrumente de cercetare valoroase prin anexele sale. Acestea inventariază rețeaua de clienți și evoluția colecției de la Huntington Library, oferind o imagine de ansamblu asupra modului în care Millard a influențat canonul bibliografic. Este o resursă esențială pentru profesioniștii din domeniul științei informației care doresc să înțeleagă dinamica pieței de carte rară și contribuția feminină la dezvoltarea acesteia.
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Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 35 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Locul publicării:New York, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Această monografie este indispensabilă cercetătorilor în istoria cărții și profesioniștilor din biblioteconomie. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care Alice Millard a modelat piața americană de carte rară, promovând standardele estetice ale lui William Morris. Este o lecție despre profesionalizare și influență culturală, susținută de rigoarea academică a profesorului Michèle V. Cloonan, oferind acces la date corectate despre o figură istorică adesea înțeleasă greșit.
Descriere
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.
Cuprins
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
Recenzii
Michèle Cloonan offers a compelling account of one of California's first great antiquarian booksellers. From her precarious, purpose-built La Miniatura, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alice Parsons Millard celebrated the art of the book and crafted an unconventional approach to the trade.
This much-needed volume introduces to a wider audience the fascinating life of Alice Millard, a bibliophile, businesswoman, and scholar whose life was bound up with the books she bought and sold in Southern California. Cloonan walks readers through the private and professional aspects of Millard, who balanced social perceptions of femininity and personal aspirations to create a successful rare books business during the Golden Age of Book Collecting. This account of Millard's life both revels in the details of her relationships and family and moves readers toward the greater contributions Millard made to the collection of and study of rare books in the United States. It is a welcome addition to the growing amount of literature on women collectors and dealers.
Michèle Cloonan' s prodigious research has resulted in an engaging biography of a woman who, like so many before her, would otherwise be lost to history. Cloonan follows trails which seem to lead nowhere to uncover the story of a courageous woman who managed to find success in the very male world of bibliophiles.