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The road to Seneca Falls

a story about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2006
A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the organizers of the country's first women's rights convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.

Fighting for equal rights

a story about Susan B. Anthony
2004
A biography of one of the foremost women in the battle for equal rights and the vote for women, Susan B. Anthony.

Writing for freedom

a story about Lydia Maria Child
2001
A biography of the woman who risked her success in the male-dominated literary world of nineteenth-century America to become a passionate advocate for the abolition of slavery.

Words of promise

a story about James Weldon Johnson
2006
Profiles the career and achievements of James Weldon Johnson, who became famous as a writer and civil rights advocate for African Americans from the second decade of the twentieth century to the 1930s.

The play's the thing

a story about William Shakespeare
1998
Traces the life of the famous English writer, from his childhood and schooling in Stratford-on-Avon, through his successful career as actor and playwright in London, to his death in 1616.

Between two worlds

a story about Pearl Buck
1988
A biography of Pearl Buck, discussing her childhood as the daughter of American missionaries in China, and looking at how her relationship to two worlds influenced her writing and led to her winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for litearture.

I have not yet begun to fight

a story about John Paul Jones
2004
Describes the life of John Paul Jones, who served in America's navy during the Revolutionary War and is remembered for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight.".

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