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Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3)

Name: Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3)
Author: Edward T. James
ISBN: 9780674627345

Edward T. James

3152 pages

Belknap Press

Jan 1971

Paperback

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This 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.