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Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary. / Edward T. James, editor. Janet Wilson James, associate editor. Paul S. Boyer, assistant editor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1971]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Introduction by Janet Wilson James; Biographies A-F
- v. 2. Biographies G-O
- v. 3. Biographies P-Z; Classified list of selected biographies.
- Notes:
- "Prepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College."
- "Only one grou pf women, the wives of the presidents of the United States, were admitted to 'Notable American Women' on their husbands' credentials. For the others the criterion was distinction in their own right of more than local significance."--Preface.
- Biographical entries printed in two columns.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy is "Sixth printing, 1982."
- ISBN:
- 0674627318
- 0674627342
- OCLC:
- 167545
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