A Bluestocking in Charleston
The Life and Career of Laura Bragg
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10026711 |
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| Authors | Julie Des Jardins (Harvard University Press, corresponding author), Louise Anderson Allen |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 686 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3092277 |
| OpenAlex | W2090843549 |
| Language | EN |
Louise Anderson Allen' A Bluestocking in Charleston is the biography of the first woman named director of a “public scientific and natural history museum” in the United States. The descendant of New England patriots, Bragg earned a degree in library science at Simmons College in 1906, only to become a transplanted member of the intellectual community of Charleston, South Carolina, and director of the Charleston Museum in 1920. Allen has the daunting task of breathing life into a woman whose personal papers leave little insight into her private world and who, although having a host of noteworthy acquaintances (Gertrude Stein and Robert Frost among them), has been virtually unrecognized by historians. Citing innovations Bragg brought to the Charleston Museum—the “traveling exhibit,” displays of non-Western art, and Saturday afternoon hours for African American patrons—Allen contends that Bragg “transformed what had been a scientific, natural history museum for the academic elite into a public institution.”
Art history · Biography · Elite · Institution · Natural history · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · South carolina · American and British Literature Analysis · American Environmental and Regional History · American Sports and Literature · History · Law · Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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