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Women who changed things

Title: Women who changed things / Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith.
Author: Peavy, Linda S.
Publication: New York : Scribner, ©1983.

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Additional Authors

Smith, Ursula, 1934-

Description

xix, 188 pages : portraits; 22 cm

Summary

Presents biographies of nine women active between 1880 and 1930 who made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine, religion, politics, business, arts and letters, education, athletics, and social action.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies.
Juvenile works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sara Josephine Baker: questioning the unquestionable. --Kate Barnard: friend of the friendless. --Williamina Fleming: a field for woman's work. --Orie Latham Hatcher: altering attitudes. --Leta Stetter Hollingworth: an experimental life. --Mary McDowell: the settlement lady. --Annie Smith Peck: mountains that mattered. --Ida Wells-Barnett: militant crusader. --Candace Thurber Wheeler: a design for industry.

ISBN

0684178494
9780684178493

LCCN

82021612

OCLC

ocm08974597
8974597
SCSB-606548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library