num_pages: 124
description: From Mary Frances Auferheide, a musician and ragtime composer, to Virginia Jenckes, the first Indiana woman to be elected to Congress, and Gene Stratton, a photographer and author who published numerous novels based on her Indiana experiences, and Harriet Thorpe, taken captive as a child from the Whitewater River Valley near Richmond, Indiana, during the War of 1812, the history of Indiana women is varied and fascinating. This book reveals the lives of twelve remarkable Indiana women.Frances Slocum : little bear woman --Rhoda Coffin : Quaker crusader --May Wright Sewall : woman's suffrage and peace activist --Virginia Claypool Meredith : agriculture queen --Eliza Ann Cooper Blaker : early childhood pioneer --Juliet Humphreys Strauss : a plain country woman --Gene Stratton Porter : naturalist and author --Albion Fellows Bacon : housing reformer --Madame C.J. Walker : millionaire entrepreneur --Marie Goth : portrait painter
language: English
title: More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Indiana Women
titlecomplete: More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Indiana Women (More Than Petticoats Series)
ratings_count: 10
series: More than Petticoats
publisher: Two Dot