Women of America

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Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein

her life and work
  • Rogers, W. G
1973
A biography of the American author and art collector who was a prominent figure on the literary scene in early twentieth-century Paris.

Fanny Kemble's America

  • Scott, John Anthony
1973
Biography of a famous English actress who wrote Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, which recorded her observations of slavery on her husband's estates.

Sea and earth

the life of Rachel Carson
  • Sterling, Philip
1970
A biography of the marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book, Silent Spring, alerted the public to the possibility of dangerous long-range effects of pesticides.

Beauty millionaire

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A biography of the Polish woman who built a multi-million dollar business as one of the first mass-producers of cosmetics.

Labor's defiant lady

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A biography of a union organizer who became known as "the patron saint of the picket lines.".

Margaret Sanger

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A biography of the woman who sacrificed her marriage, family life, and health to pioneer birth control education in the United States and abroad.

Woman against slavery

the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Scott, John Anthony
1978
A biography of the woman whose novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " made Americans aware of the horrors of slavery.

To the barricades

the anarchist life of Emma Goldman
  • Shulman, Alix Kates
1971

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!

The life of Mahalia Jackson, queen of gospel singers.
  • Jackson, Jesse
1974
A biography of the famous black gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.

I speak for my slave sister: the life of Abby Kelley Foster

  • Bacon, Margaret Hope
1974
A biography of Abby Kelley Foster, pacifist, abolitionist, and campaigner for women's rights in the 1840s.

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