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10 avril 2018
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9781683352921
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English
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Publié par
Date de parution
10 avril 2018
EAN13
9781683352921
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
9 Mo
MARY LEMIST TITCOMB AND
AMERICA S FIRST BOOKMOBILE
Sharlee Glenn
Abrams Books for Young Readers
New York
Note from the designer: The period paper elements and
postage stamps incorporated into this book s
design came from my personal collection. Many of the
items belonged to my great-grandparents and date back to
the early 1900s. The text font, Goudy Old Style, was
designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1915, and the display
font, Smythe, is a contemporary take on Victorian-era
typefaces designed by Vernon Adams.
Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4197-2875-4 eISBN 978-1-68335-292-1 Text copyright 2018 Sharlee Glenn Owing to limitations of space, all illustration credits can be found on p. 50 . Cover and book design by Melissa J. Barrett Front cover art the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Back cover art the Washington County Free Library Front cover: Bookmobile in North Carolina inspired by Mary Lemist Titcomb s original Back cover: The motorized version of Mary s bookmobile in Washington County, Maryland Published in 2018 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Abrams Books for Young Readers are available at special discounts when purchased in quantity for premiums and promotions as well as fundraising or educational use. Special editions can also be created to specification. For details, contact specialsales@abramsbooks.com or the address below.
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For Mary and
all the other unsung
heroines of history
Mary Lemist Titcomb, 1925
The happy person is the
person who does something.
-
M
ary Lemist Titcomb
1
grew up wanting to do things. The prob-
lem was, people were always telling her
that she couldn t. She couldn t do this,
because she was too young. She couldn t
do that, because she was a girl, or because
her family didn t have enough money, or
because it just wasn t practical. But Mary
never gave up.
There are no existing photos of Mary as a young girl,
but she may have looked something like this 1850s
New England farm girl.
Titcomb family home in Farmington, New Hampshire
2
Map of Farmington, New Hampshire, 1877
3
a poor family and in a day when academic
opportunities for women were scarce,
Mary was intent on getting a good educa-
Mary was born on May
16, 1852, in Farmington,
New Hampshire.
Though from
Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter, New Hampshire, where Mary attended school
tion. When her family moved to Exeter,
New Hampshire, so that Mary s brothers
could attend the respected Phillips Exeter
Academy, Mary begged for a chance to
continue her schooling, too. Although it
was unusual for farm girls to attend school
beyond the eighth grade, Mary s parents
supported the idea, and they enrolled
Mary and her sister, Lydia, in the newly
