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Author Wolff, Katherine, 1963-

Title Culture club : the curious history of the Boston Athenaeum / Katherine Wolff
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Boston's conflicted elite -- The collector -- Sweet are the fruits of letters -- A woman framed -- Ornament for the city -- The color of gentility -- Pamphlet war -- Conclusion: Ex libris
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Boston Athenaeum -- History
SUBJECT Boston Athenaeum fast
Boston (Mass.) -- Boston Athenaeum. swd
Subject Subscription libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Intellectual life
Subscription libraries
SUBJECT Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Massachusetts -- Boston
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009017734
ISBN 9781613761779
1613761775