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Maverick women : 19th century women who kicked over the traces / by Frances Laurence.
They were scholars, they were saints, they were sinners... They were determined.
In a time when a woman's mind was kept as tightly laced as her corset, these females went against family, friends and convention to blaze trails for their sisters to come.
Jane Barnes was the first white woman on the Oregon's wild shore-- Ina Coolbrith hid a mysterious past-- Maria Mitchell found her own comet-- Sojourner truth spoke to God-- Pearl Hart turned bandit-- Nellie Cashman was the miners' angel-- Mary Austen painted the West in words-- Nellie Bly circled the globe in 72 days-- Dame Shirley immortalized the '49ers-- Ann Eliza W. Young fled polygamy-- Carrie Chapman Catt won women the vote-- Bethenia Owens-Adair was Oregon's first female doctor-- The Three Charleys were women masquerading as men.
Record details
- ISBN: 0962789607 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780962789601 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: x, 264 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Carpinteria, Calif. : Manifest Publications, 1998.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Jane Barnes -- Dame Shirley -- Maria Mitchell -- Sojourner Truth -- Three Charleys -- Nellie Cashman -- Ina Coolbrith -- Pearl Hart -- Bethenia Owens-Adair -- Ann Eliza W. Young -- Mary Austin -- Nellie Bly -- Carrie Chapman Catt. |
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| Subject: | Women > United States > Biography Biography > 19th century Biography Women. United States |
| Genre: | Biography. |
