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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair. By Beverly Gordon. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxviii, 285 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-57233-014-7.)

Building on the fine scholarship on women's philanthropy by Anne Scott, Barbara Berg, and Kathleen McCarthy, among others, Beverly Gordon has made yet another valuable contribution to this important field of study by examining a notable American institution: women's fund-raising fairs. Long overlooked and too often taken for granted—as Gordon points out in her introduction—these seemingly ordinary events have not only netted countless dollars to fill the coffers of important causes but have had far-reaching influence on American culture as well. 1

Gordon identifies the source of her enthusiasm for the subject as reading ubiquitous, but often ambiguous, references that dot women's nineteenth-century periodicals and literature: "Things to make for fancy fairs." But what things, and what exactly were fancy fairs? Gordon wondered. . . .

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