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More than petticoats : remarkable New York women
Title:
More than petticoats : remarkable New York women
Author:
Petrash, Antonia.
Personal Author:
Edition:
lst edition.
Publication Information:
Guilford, CT : TwoDot, [2002]

©2002
Physical Description:
xi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Deborah Dunch Moody, a dangerous woman -- Kateri Tekakwitha, the lily of the Mohawks -- Sybil Ludington, the female Paul Revere -- Emma Hart Willard, champion of education for women -- Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the well-dressed suffragist -- Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people -- Emily Warren Roebling, an unlikely bridge builder -- Katharine Bement Davis, prison reformer -- Mary Burnett Talbert, advocate of equality -- Sara Josephine Baker, champion of health care for children -- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, patron of American art -- Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
ISBN:
9780762712236
Format :
Book