Free Range Librarian

Interesting question—what women’s libraries do we know? And it raises the question, why are we calling it “John Adam’s Library”? (I’ll ask the BPL, since they’re in charge of it, and may be lending us their MARC records directly.)

Some ideas: Madame de Stael would be good—she was the original social network. I’m betting someone has Emma Goldman’s books.

Oh, every time a new library is finished, I’m adding it to your personal “statistics” page. Right now, it’s Jefferson, Tupac Shaur and Mozart. Jefferson and Mozart share Ovid, which fits, I think.

Unfortunately (from a grammatical point of view), since there was only one John Adams, then it must be “John Adams’s library”.

Of course, my favourite edition of the Chicago Manual formally advises one to rewrite such an offending phrase to “sidestep difficulties, rather than face them head on.”

Here’s the first one someone’s found: Marie Antoinette!
http://books.google.com/books?id=WYINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject:%22Private+libraries%22&lr=&as_brr=1

A catalog of Edith Wharton’s library has been published. I first saw a copy of the book at The Mount. Fortunately much of her library was purchased back from the rare book dealer who created a catalog. He bought it after it was sold to another dealer by Colin Clark, her godson.
Used copies are available
Edith Wharton’s Library: a Catalogue by Ramsden, G.
Stone Trough Books, Settrington, first edition. (1999) 9780952953456.

Some enterprising soul could add them to LibraryThing!

I was thinking Venn diagrams! 😉