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The story of the life and several careers of Edith Guerrier, who embodied the ideals of the New Women in turn-of-the century America
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An Independent Woman : The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier
author
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Guerrier, Edith.; Matson, Molly.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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087023756X
print isbn13
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9780870237560
ebook isbn13
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9780585260464
language
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English
subject
Guerrier, Edith,--1870-1958, Librarians--United States--Biography, Women social reformers--United States--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
Z720.G89A3 1992eb
ddc
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020/.92
subject
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Guerrier, Edith,--1870-1958, Librarians--United States--Biography, Women social reformers--United States--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography.
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An Independent Woman
The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier
Edited with an introduction by Molly Matson
Foreword by Polly Welts Kaufman
The University of Massachusetts Press
AMHERST
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-18499 ISBN 0-87023-756-X Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Janson Text by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Guerrier, Edith, 18701958. An independent woman: the autobiography of Edith Guerrier / edited with an introduction by Molly Matson; foreword by Polly Welts Kaufman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN O-87023-756-X (alk. paper) 1. Guerrier, Edith. 18701958. 2. Librarians United StatesBiography. 3. Women social reformersUnited StatesBiography. 4. FeministsUnited StatesBiography. I. Matson, Molly. II. Title. Z720.G89A3 1992 020'.92dc20 [B] 91-18499 CIP
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
FOR LUCY, KATE, MARTHA, AND THEIR FATHER
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface
xix
Introduction
xxiii
1. A Motherless Child, 18701883
3
2. Father and Daughter, 18831891
31
3. A Single Woman, 18911917
61
4. On Loan to Mr. Hoover, 19171919
97
5. A Civil Servant, 19191945
119
Epilogue, 19451950
131
Notes
135
Select Bibliography
145
Index
151
Page ix
Illustrations
Edith Guerrier as a young girl
2
Edith Guerrier's uncle and aunt, Walton and Anna Ricketson
11
Edith Guerrier's father, George Guerrier, in Civil War uniform
34
Edith Guerrier at the Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College
58
George Guerrier in old age
82
Edith Guerrier in old age
128
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Foreword
Polly Welts Kaufman
The autobiography of Edith Guerrier illustrates in one woman's life how the response of women to the multiple disruptions of society of the late nineteenth century combined with new opportunities to produce the "New Woman" of the early twentieth century. Often out of economic necessity, new women replaced traditional family roles of wife, mother, or spinster aunt with improvised careers in new fields. The availability of higher education for thousands of young women, representing nearly 37 percent of college students by the turn of the century, led to lifelong careers for many women, not just temporary jobs designed to fill the time between school and marriage.1
The new woman who, like Edith Guerrier, chose to remain single also created a new kind of family unconnected by ties of kinship. Made up of pairs of women linked in "Boston marriages" or groups of self-supporting women living together in lasting relationships, these surrogate families offered the economic and emotional support for women once provided by traditional families.2 With woman's culture as its base, Edith Guerrier's life path intersected many of the most creative attempts to counter the forces of immigration, urbanization, and industrialization that destabilized the existing society.
Although she participated in the earnest efforts to Americanize the individuals arriving in the high tide of immigration from eastern Europe, Guerrier wanted to give them more than just survival skills. After a stint as an aid in the nursery schools supported by philanthropist Pauline Agassiz Shaw, she was assigned to conduct girls' clubs in several settlement houses and at Shaw's North Bennet Street Industrial School
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