More than petticoats : remarkable new jersey women.

More than petticoats : remarkable new jersey women.

"New Jersey's Remarkable Women features fourteen exceptional women born prior to 1900. Portraits include Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across America; Hannah Silverman, a labor activist during the Paterson silk strikes who fought fearlessly for better working conditions; Ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wenzel, Lynn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Twodot, 2015.
Series:Remarkable American Women.
Subjects:
Women > New Jersey > Biography.
Women > New Jersey > History.
Women
New Jersey > Biography.
New Jersey
Biographies
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Patience Lovell Wright: Sculptor, Patriot, and Spy; Mary Ludwig Hays Macauley: Hero of the Battle of Monmouth; Sylvia Dubois: Ambitious to Be Free; Abigail Goodwin: Champion of the Underground Railroad; Lilly Martin Spencer: Virtuoso Painter of the Familiar; Antoinette Brown Blackwell: America's First Ordained Woman Minister; Mary Mapes Dodge: Creator of Hans Brinker and St. Nicholas; Clara Maass: Yellow Fever Nurse; Ruth St. Denis: Founder of American Modern Dance; Jessie Redmon Fauset: Midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Alice Stokes Paul: Mother of the Equal Rights AmendmentAlice Huyler Ramsey: Pioneer Endurance Driver; Maria Jeritza: Metropolitan Opera Star; Hannah Silverman: Hero of the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS.

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