Bertha Mahony, known as Bertha Mahony Miller, is considered a figurehead of the children's literature movement.
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13 Facts About Bertha Mahony
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Bertha Mahony created one of the first children's bookstores in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bertha Mahony participated in an advanced one-year program in the School of Secretarial Studies.
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Shortly after, Bertha Mahony was employed as Assistant Secretary in Boston's Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
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Bertha Mahony started off as assistant secretary, then was put in charge of promotional materials.
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Bertha Mahony enlisted the support of experts in children's literature to fill in her information gaps.
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Bertha Mahony visited the Central Children's Room in New York and met Anne Carroll Moore.
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Bertha Mahony gathered financial support from banks and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
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In 1917, Bertha Mahony published Books for boys and girls: suggestive purchase list, another first of its kind.
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However, Bertha Mahony saw the magazine as a continuation of the goals that prompted her to create the bookshop.
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Bertha Mahony published works such as Paul Hazard's lyrical books.
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