Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary

by Paul S. Boyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674627318
• ISBN13: 9780674627314
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 3 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.