The Saturday Evening Girls: A progressive era library club and the intellectual life of working class and immigrant girls in turn-of-the-century Boston

Library Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 195-230

  Larson, Kate Clifford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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EID: 0035532146     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603261     Document Type: Article

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