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Margaret Wright Brown
Best known for a practical early guide to book care, this author wrote for librarians and caretakers who wanted worn, much-used books to last longer. Her surviving published work is small in number but still of interest to readers curious about preservation and the everyday history of libraries.
1 Audiobook
Mending and Repair of Books
by Margaret Wright Brown
About the author
Margaret Wright Brown is credited with Mending and Repair of Books, a short practical manual on caring for and repairing damaged books. The work was published by the American Library Association Publishing Board in the early 20th century, and later editions note revisions by Gertrude Stiles.
Reliable biographical information about Brown herself appears to be very limited in the sources available online. Public-domain library records and book catalogs consistently connect her name with Mending and Repair of Books, which focuses on hands-on methods for cleaning, mending, and maintaining library materials.
Because so little about her life is clearly documented in the sources reviewed, it is safest to remember her as a writer associated with the practical side of library work rather than to make broader claims about her background or career.