**Ann Gottert Swindells**. [[https://dev.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/Spring%201996.pdf|Noted]] in the //ABAA Newsletter// (Vol. 7, #3), Spring 1996 (page 16) as having been elected to full membership in the Association at the Board of Governors' meeting in April, 1996. Her business operated under the name of [[Dower House]] in Athol, Mass. Dower House seems to have specialized in children's literature.

The 1998 reference book by Delores Blythe Jones from the ALA, //Building a Special Collection of Children's Literature at Your Library//, [[https://books.google.com/books?id=GoFPUwNpYJEC&lpg=PA33&ots=HCTxb6PAS3&dq=swindells%20%22dower%20house%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=swindells%20%22dower%20house%22&f=false|gives the address]] of Swindells' Dower House books as in Houston, Texas.