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| Genre/Form: | Quick Ref. Collection Biographies Reference works Dictionaries Biography Biography Dictionaries Biography Encyclopedias |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Notable American women, 1607-1950. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971 (OCoLC)607905468 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward T James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S Boyer; Radcliffe College. |
| ISBN: | 0674627318 9780674627314 0674627342 9780674627345 |
| OCLC Number: | 167545 |
| Notes: | "Prepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College." |
| Description: | 3 volumes 27 cm |
| Contents: | Biographies A-F -- Biographies G-O -- Biographies P-Z. Abolitionists -- Actresses and theatre managers -- Anthropologists and folklorists -- Architects and interior decorators -- Art collectors and patrons -- Art critics and historians -- Art educators -- Astronomers -- Authors -- Biologists -- Botanists and horticulturists -- Chemists and physicists -- Children's authors -- Circus performers -- Civil war figures -- Classicists -- College administrators -- Composers -- Dancers -- Educational reformers -- Educators of the handicapped -- Entrepreneurs -- Explorers and travelers -- Feminists -- Film actresses and directors. Geographer and geologist -- Hawaiian nobility -- Health reform advocates -- Heroines -- Historians -- Historical preservationists -- Home economics -- Illustrators -- Indian captives -- Indian reform advocates -- Indian women -- Inventors -- Kindergartners -- Labor leaders -- Labor reformers -- Lawyers -- Lecturers and orators -- Librarians -- Literary scholars -- Magazine editors -- Ministers and evangelists -- Missionaries -- Missionary society leaders -- Mormon women. Music educators and patrons -- Naturalists -- Negro women -- Newspaperwomen -- Nurses -- Painters -- Peace advocates -- Performing musicians -- Philanthropists -- Philosophers -- Photographer -- Physicians -- Political figures -- Printmakers -- Prison reformers -- Psychologists -- Religious educators -- Religious founders and leaders -- School founders and administrators -- Sculptors -- Settlement houseleaders. Social and civic reformers -- Social economists -- Social leaders -- Social workers -- Socialists and radicals -- Suffragists -- Temperance advocates -- Translators -- Welfare work leaders -- Wives of the presidents -- Women's club leaders. |
| Responsibility: | Edward T. James, editor. Janet Wilson James, associate editor. Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor. |
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"Notable American Women, a three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization. American history at its most moving moments. Long needed, this publication is especially welcome today when there is an upsurge of interest in women's history. Constructed with care and with an eye for detail, accuracy, ease of use. The life stories of 1,300 remarkable American women. The sisterhood is here in all its many faces. -- Helen Vendler "New York Times Book Review" "Notable American Women," a three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization. Read more...
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