More than petticoats : Remarkable Vermont women /
Remarkable Vermont women
Deborah Clifford.
- Guilford, CT : Globe Pequot Press, c2009.
- viii, 135 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- More than petticoats series .
- More than petticoats series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-135).
Lucy Terry Prince -- Ann Story -- Emma Willard -- Clarina Howard Nichols -- Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr -- Abby Maria Hemenway -- Rachael Robinson Elmer -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Electra Havemeyer Webb -- Helen Hartness Flanders -- Consuelo Northrop Bailey -- Shirley Jackson.
Profiles twelve women from various walks of life who made significant contributions to the history of Vermont, including African-American poet and pioneer Lucy Terry Prince, celebrated writer Shirley Jackson, historian Abby Maria Hemenway, and education activist Emma Willard.