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Homespun heroines and other women of distinction / [compiled] by Hallie Q. Brown ; with an introduction by Randall K. Burkett.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) E185.96 .H65 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, viii, 248 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- The president of the National Association of Colored Women wrote this book as a tribute to black women. She presents short biographies of such important black women as Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, and many other women whose names have been lost to history.
- Contents:
- Martha Payne
- Catherine Ferguson
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sara Allen
- Isabella Sojourner Truth
- Elizabeth N. Smith
- Sarah Harris Fayerweather
- Dinah Cox
- Sarah Elizabeth Tanner
- Charlotta Gordon MacHenry Pyles
- Mrs. Jane Roberts
- Aunt Mac
- Harriet Tubman
- Grandmother Gross
- Frances Jane Brown
- Eliza Anna Scroggins
- Lucreta Harper Simpson
- Sarah Gould Lee
- Mrs. Catherine A. Delany
- Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Caroline Sherman Andrews-Hill
- Mary Catherine Windsor
- Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet.
- Mrs. S.J.S. Garnett
- Eliza Ann Gardner
- Fannie Jackson Coppin
- Anne E. Baltimore
- Amanda Smith
- Susan Paul Vashon
- Georgiana Frances Putnam
- Anna Elizabeth Hudlun
- Miss Mary J. Patterson
- Madam Elizabeth Keckley
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
- Mrs. Margaret E. Reid
- Matilda J. Dunbar
- Dr. Susan S. McKinney Steward
- Henrietta C. Ray
- Lucy S. Thurman
- Josephine S. Yates
- Maria L. Baldwin
- Mary E. Mossell
- Agnes J. Adams
- Susie I.L. Shorter
- Victoria E. Matthews
- Mary B. Talbert
- C.J. Walker
- Susan E. Frazier
- Margaret M. Washington
- Emma A. Hackley
- Laura A. Brown
- Sarah G. Jones
- Marietta Chiles
- Eliza P. Fox.
- Notes:
- Previously published: 1926.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989
- ISBN:
- 0195052374
- 9780195052374
- 0195052676
- 9780195052671
- 0195075757
- 9780195075755
- OCLC:
- 16714028
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