No Ordinary Woman: The Story of Mary Schaffer Warren

by Janice Sanford Beck

Book Overview

Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her dreams. Born into a wealthy Pennsylvania Quaker family, Mary Sharpless was a precocious child who longed to experience the world beyond her sheltered home. An 1889 cross-Canada trip with her new husband, doctor and botanist Charles Schaffer, proved to be the turning point in her life: it was when she fell hopelessly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921102828
• ISBN13: 9780921102823
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Rmb - Rocky Mountain Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"