Culture club
Subtitle: the curious history of the Boston Athenaeum
By: Katherine Wolff.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781558497139; 9781558497146
Subjects: Boston Athenaeum -- History; Subscription libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History; Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The collector; title: Sweet are the fruits of letters; title: A woman framed; title: Ornament for the city; title: The color of gentility; title: Pamphlet war.