More than petticoats Remarkable Pennsylvania women /
| Main Author: | Hertzog, Kate. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Guilford, Conn. :
TwoDot,
c2007.
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| Series: |
More than petticoats series
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Sybilla Masters (1676-1720), American inventor
- Lydia Darragh (1728-1789), house spy
- Margaret Corbin (1751-1800), half-soldier, full hero
- Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), seeker of equality
- Rebecca Webb Lukens (1794-1854), industrial leader
- Mary Ambler (1805-1868), first responder
- Ann Preston (1813-1872), pioneering doctor
- Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907), Civil War caretaker
- Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915), traveling evangelist
- Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), muckraking journalist
- Nellie Bly (1864-1922), undercover reporter
- Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), refrigeration specialist
- Florence Seibert (1897-1991), disease fighter
- Marian Anderson (1902-1993), singer for equality
- Rachel Carson (1907-1964), illuminating ecologist.