Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary / edited by Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green, with Ilene Kantrov, Harriette Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sicherman, Barbara.

Green, Carol Hurd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 773 p., [16] p. of plates : ports. ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1980.

Summary:

Modeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.

The supplemental volume includes 442 women who died between January 1, 1951, and December 31, 1975. There was a major effort to include minority women, and foreign-born women are included as well. Criteria for selection include and influence on time or field, a pioneering or innovative quality, the significance of achievement, or relevance of the career in the history of women. The volume follows the pattern of the main set with an excellent introduction, full entries with bibliographies and a classified list of entries. This set should be in middle and high school collections.

Contents:

Social reform: Edith Abbott

Emily Greene Balch

Donaldina Mackenzie Cameron

Mary Wiliams Dewson

Lavinia Lloyd Dock

Mary Elisabeth Dreier

Helen Keller

Frances Kellor

Dorothy Kenyon

Lucy Randolph Mason

Frances Perkins

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Rose Schneiderman

Vida Dutton Scudder

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

Mary Church Terrell

Mary Abby Van Kleeck

Social research: Edith Abbott

Joanna Carver Colcord

Mary Williams Dewson

Margaret Loyd Jarman Hagood

Elizabeth Ross Haynes

Emma Octavia Lundberg

Frieda Segelke Miller

Mary White Ovington

Mary Abby VanKleeck

Theresa Wolfson

Social Welfare: Ethel Percy Andrus

Edith Terry Bremer

Pearl Buck

Ethel Sturges Dummer

Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut

Rose Hum Lee

Edith Elizabeth Lowry

Anne Tracy Morgan

Mary Elizabeth Switzer

Eartha Mary Magdalene White

Social Work: Edith Abbott

Ida Maud Cannon

Grace Longwell Coyle

Eleanor Touroff Glueck

Gordon Hamilton

Jane Margueretta Hoey

Mary Cromwell Jarrett

Lydia Rapoport

Jane Parker Deeter Rippin

Jessie Taft

Charlotte Helen Towle

Miriam Van Waters

Sociology: Eleanor Touroff Glueck

Irene Barnes Taeuber.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy missing cover.

ISBN:

0674627334 (pbk.)

0674627326 (hard)

OCLC:

9830609