More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women

By (author) Deborah Clifford

Publication date:

10 April 2009

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

Globe Pequot

ISBN-13: 9780762743063

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

Introduction

Lucy Terry Prince, 1730-1821, Poet and Pioneer

Ann Story, 1741-1817, Pioneer and Patriot

Emma Willard, 1787-1870, Educating Women for the Republic

Clarina Howard Nichols, 1810-1885, A Womanly Reformer

Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, 1825-1913, A Vermont Poet Laureate

Abby Maria Hemenway, 1825-1913, The Woman Who Saved Vermont's History

Rachael Robinson Elmer, 1878-1919, Independent Artist

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, Novelist and Crusader

Electra Havemeyer Webb, 1888-1967, Born to Collect

Helen Hartness Flanders, 1890-1972, Green Mountain Ballad Collector

Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 1899-1976, Vermont's Own Daughter

Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, Raising Demons in the Green Mountains

Selected References

About the Author