| 词条 | E. Millicent Sowerby |
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| name = E. Millicent Sowerby | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1883|09|07}} | birth_place = Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1977|10|23|1883|09|07}} | death_place = Muncie, Indiana | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (1952–1959) | occupation = Bibliographer }} Emily Millicent Sowerby (September 7, 1883[1] – October 23, 1977[2]) was a bibliographer known for her Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. BiographySowerby was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. After graduating from Girton College, Cambridge, she worked in London as a cataloger for book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich and briefly as a librarian at Birkbeck College before serving as a counterintelligence agent in Paris during World War I.[3] Upon her return to England in 1916, Sowerby worked as a cataloger at Sotheby's, the first woman in the 'expert' workforce of an auction house. She moved to the United States in 1923, finding employment as a cataloger with the American Art Association and then at the New York Public Library (until January 1925).[4] In March 1925, she became a bibliographer for A. S. W. Rosenbach's Rosenbach Company in Philadelphia and New York City where she was employed until February 1942.[5] Sowerby was appointed Bibliographer of the Jefferson Collection at the Library of Congress in July 1942.[6] She retired to Muncie, Indiana, where she died on October 23, 1977.[2][8] Major worksCatalogue of the Library of Thomas JeffersonIn 1942, the Library of Congress appointed Sowerby to prepare a catalog of books that Thomas Jefferson had sold to the U.S. government in 1815. The catalog was intended to commemorate the bicentennial of Jefferson's birth in 1943, however, owing to the complexity of the project, the first volume did not appear until 1952. The final volume was published in 1959.[7] Rare People and Rare BooksSowerby published a memoir of her professional career, Rare People and Rare Books, in 1967.[8] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/news/112D5E96A932994F |title=Emily Sowerby: Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Death Record |publisher=GenealogyBank.com |accessdate=December 10, 2013}}{{Subscription required |via=GenealogyBank.com}} 2. ^1 {{cite news |title=E. Millicent Sowerby, 94; an expert on rare books |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 24, 1977}} 3. ^{{cite book |first=E. Millicent |last=Sowerby |title=Rare People and Rare Books |location=London |publisher=Constable |year=1967 |pages=34–39}} 4. ^{{cite book |first=E. Millicent |last=Sowerby |title=Rare People and Rare Books |location=London |publisher=Constable |year=1967 |pages=104, 114, 116}} 5. ^{{cite book |first=E. Millicent |last=Sowerby |title=Rare People and Rare Books |location=London |publisher=Constable |year=1967 |page=117}} 6. ^{{cite book |first=E. Millicent |last=Sowerby |title=Rare People and Rare Books |location=London |publisher=Constable |year=1967 |page=237}} 7. ^1 {{cite journal |first=Douglas |last=Wilson |title=Sowerby Revisited: The Unfinished Catalogue of Thomas Jefferson's Library |journal=The William and Mary Quarterly |series=Third Series |volume=41 |issue=4 |publication-date=October 1984 |pages=615–628 |jstor=1919156}} 8. ^{{cite book |first=E. Millicent |last=Sowerby |title=Rare People and Rare Books |location=London |publisher=Constable |year=1967}} External links
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