Research Catalog

Title

Gratia Countryman : her life, her loves, and her library / Jane Pejsa.

Author

Pejsa, Jane.

Publication

Minneapolis : Nodin Press, c1995.

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Details

Description

341 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Countryman, Gratia A. 1866-1953
• Minneapolis Public Library > History
• Public librarians > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Biography
• Library administrators > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Child of the prairie -- Nininger on the Mississippi -- Levi, between Satan and God -- Gratia, in thanksgiving -- At Hasting High School -- pt. 2. University scholar -- A house in Minneapolis -- A woman's vocation -- Horace V. Winchell -- One broken heart -- Company Q -- Commencement -- pt. 3. Working girl -- The new library -- A restless spirit -- From Britain to Bayreuth -- Family obligations -- Marie Todd -- The scramble for a chief librarian -- pt. 4. Chief librarian -- The new chief -- Friends and colleagues -- Hancock Point -- A home of her own -- The furnace and Jack Ryan -- An aborted candidacy -- pt. 5. Single mother -- The branch explosion -- "Love's bondage" -- Wellington Greenway -- The war -- T.B. Walker -- Rules of conduct -- pt. 6. Benevolent autocrat -- A house for Marie -- Genevieve Macdonald -- At Wetoco Lodge -- The snake lady -- National prexy : the ALA -- Farewell -- pt. 7. Librarian emeritus -- "Miss Farmer" -- Wellington's marriage -- The WPA Project -- Granddaughter Alta Marie -- Men and women in need -- Birthday celebrations -- pt. 8. Leave-taking -- The Buffingtons of Duluth -- Marie's legacy -- Sharing of gifts -- Afterword -- Selected writings of Gratia Countryman -- "The vocation in which a woman may engage" -- "Liberty" -- "Maria Sanford," a eulogy -- "Fathers" -- Library Ann's cook book -- Gratia's recipes.

ISBN

• 0931714664
• 9780931714665
• 1931714665 (cover)
• 9781931714662 (cover)

LCCN

^^^95067415^

OCLC

• 31764525
• SCSB-11039878

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library