Margaret Bingham Stillwell

Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887 – 1984) was an American librarian and bibliographer who spent most of her professional career as curator of the Annmary Brown Memorial.

[1][2][3] In 1917 Stillwell returned to Providence as curator of the Annmary Brown Memorial Library, where she worked until her retirement in 1953.

[4] The library, initially a private collection, was transferred to Brown University in 1948, at which time Stillwell became professor of bibliography.

[5] The John Russell Bartlett Society of Rhode Island's prize for undergraduate book collecting is named after her.

Stillwell specialized in the bibliography of incunabula (books printed in the fifteenth century) and her survey Incunabula in American Libraries: A Second Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Owned in the United States, Mexico, and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1940) became known eponymously as Stillwell.