What were we reading in 1911?
The William H. Hannon Library celebrates the LMU Centennial through books (we are after all librarians!).
What were people reading during this time when William H. Taft was our president? When the US population was 93,863,000, there were 46 stars in our flag, the cost of a first-class stamp was only $0.02 and the U.S. was crossed by plane for the first time –and it only took 50 days!
Each month one of our librarians will look at a notable book published during 1911, and give you a glimpse of what people were reading while Loyola Marymount University was just getting started.
Also, if you want to pick a 1911 book and submit a review of your own, we'd love to feature it here! For more information, please contact Rhonda Rosen at rrosen@lmu.edu or 310.338.4584.
For more views of life from the perspective of 1911 as seen through Hannon Library resources, please visit this LibGuide.
Photograph of 1911 first editions courtesy of Archives & Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Photo: Melanie Hubbard
If you'd like to read along with us, copies of all of these books are available both in our library (click the book titles above) and through LINK+. These books are also all in the public domain, so if you have an e-reader, you can download and read the books for free! Here's a good place to look.
Available at the library:
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W.E.B. Du Bois
Wandering Stars by Sholem Aleichem
The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori
The Outcry by Henry James
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
