Growing up female in America; ten lives.
Edited and introduced by Eve Merriam.
- [1st ed.]
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.
- 308 p. illus. 22 cm.
Eliza Southgate (1783-1809): schoolgirl.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): founder of the women's suffrage movement.--Maria Mitchell (1818-1889): astronomer.--Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836-1887): wife of a Confederate officer.--Arvazine Angeline Cooper (1845-1929): pioneer across the plains.--Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): minister and doctor.--Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): born a slave.--"Mother" Mary Jones (1830-1930): labor organizer.--Elizabeth Gertrude Stern (1890-1954): in the Jewish ghetto.--Mountain Wolf Woman (1884-19600: Winnebago Indian.--Attic.--Bibliography (p. 23)
Women social reformers--Biography.--United States Women--Biography.--United States Women--Social conditions.--United States