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Jennie Collins (1828-1887) started Boffin's Bower to help the working women of Boston. This past summer, Library Company intern Lydia Shaw researched Collins and her remarkable project, which was featured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (June 26, 1875). Read more in Lydia's blog post for Women's Equality Day 2019.

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Getting One’s Due: An Episode in the 19th-Century Book Industry

In honor of #WomensEqualityDay today, we take a look at Reading Room Intern Lydia Shaw’s research into 19th-century author Mary Abigail Dodge. Check out Lydia’s blog post to learn how Dodge called out her publisher, Ticknor & Fields, for pay inequality in the 1860s.