Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3)

Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3)

ReviewNotable American Women, a three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization. (Life)The life stories of 1,300 remarkable American women. The sisterhood is here in all its many faces. (Helen Vendler New York Times Book Review)American history at its most moving moments. (Saturday Evening Post)A remarkable assemblage. (Times Literary Supplement)Long needed, this publication is especially welcome today when there is an upsurge of interest in women's history. (American Historical Review)Constructed with care and with an eye for detail, accuracy, ease of use. (Library Journal)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.About the AuthorPaul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.