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Madeleine B. Stern

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

July 01, 1912

Died

August 18, 2007

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Madeleine Bettina Stern was an independent scholar and rare book dealer. She graduated from Barnard College in 1932 with a B.A. in English literature. She received her M.A. in English literature from Columbia University in 1934. Stern was particularly known for her work on the writer Louisa May Alcott. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 to write a biography of Alcott, which was eventually published in 1950. In 1945, she and her friend Leona Rostenberg opened Rostenberg & Stern Books. Rostenberg and Stern were active members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, at a time when few women were members. The pair lived and worked in Rostenberg's house in the Bronx. They were known for creating unique rare book catal ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,120 ratings · 423 reviews · 81 distinct works • Similar authors

	Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 3.88 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louisa May Alcott: A Biography 3.82 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1971 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 3.46 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old and Rare : Thirty Years in the Book Business 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heads & headlines;: The phrenological Fowlers 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purple Passage : The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books Have Their Fates by Madeleine B. Stern, Leona Rostenberg 2.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Margaret Fuller liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The time had come to capture thought once again in a net of words.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography

tags: article-writing, words, writing, writing-quotes

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“[Nineteenth-century professional women's] end was pertinent and and timely--economic independence. To achieve that end, they upheld, unconsciously as often as consciously, women's most vivid tricolor: freedom of work, equality in the rewards of work, fraternity in trade and in profession. And though, with such a feather pinned to their jaunty caps, they fought the bloodless revolution of the nineteenth century, their contemporaries and sometimes themselves were unaware of what they had accomplished.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America

tags: women-s-economic-freedom

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“[Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography

tags: female-authors, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, writing-process

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