num_pages: 160
description: This book recreates the life-and-times of thirteen inspiring and independent women in fascinating, brief biographies. Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, the "mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who tramped Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Penobscot basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her people.Marguerite-Blanche Thibodeau Cyr: Tante Blanche: the mother of Madawaska --Kate Furbish: botanic artist in the garden of Maine --Abbie Burgess Grant: lighthouse keeper --Lillian M. N. Stevens: temperance activist and social reformer --Sarah Orne Jewett: writer from the Country of the pointed firs --Cornella "Fly Rod" Crosby: sportswoman &amp; journalist of the Maine woods --Lillian "La Nordica" Norton: the yankee diva --Josephine Diebitsch Peary: Arctic explorer &amp; writer --Florence Nicolar Shay: Penobscot basketmaker &amp; tribal advocate --Marguerite Thompson Zorach: avant-garde painter of Robinhood Cove --Florence Eastman Williams: working woman, clairvoyant, beloved matriarch --Sister R. Mildred Barker: "hands to work, hearts to God" --Margaret Chase Smith: "a ship's figurehead in proud profile"
language: English
title: More than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women
titlecomplete: More than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women (More than Petticoats Series)
genres: Womens, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 18
series: More than Petticoats
publisher: TwoDot