Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES

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This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists lawyers reformers educators entrepreneurs physicists writers pioneers presidents ladies film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like Ruth Benedict Jane Addams Willa Cather Isadora Duncan Carole Lombard Sojourner Truth Pocahontas Texas Guinan the Everleigh sisters Carrie Nation Amelia Earhart. Here also are many names rescued from obscurity.