Notable American women, 1607-1950: a biographical dictionary, Volume 1This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like Ruth Benedict, Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Carole Lombard, Sojourner Truth, Pocahontas, Texas Guinan, the Everleigh sisters, Carrie Nation, Amelia Earhart. Here also are many names rescued from obscurity. |
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| Title | Notable American women, 1607-1950: a biographical dictionary, Volume 1 Notable American Women Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Janet Wilson James Women and social movements: scholar's edition |
| Authors | Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, Radcliffe College |
| Editors | Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer |
| Contributor | Edward T. James |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 28, 2006 |
| Length | 3152 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Women History / General Social Science / Gender Studies Social Science / Reference Social Science / Women's Studies |
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