The passion of Abby Hemenway
Subtitle: memory, spirit, and the making of history
By: Deborah Pickman Clifford.
Contributors: Vermont Historical Society.
Publisher: Vermont Historical Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montpelier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890.; Vermont historical gazetteer.; Women historians -- Vermont -- Biography.; Women historians -- United States -- Biography.; Historians -- Vermont -- Biography.; Historians -- United States -- Biography.; Vermont -- Historiography.; United States -- Historiography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: ""Not a suitable work for a woman". That is what Abby Hemenway was told by male historians skeptical of her ability to compile the history of every town in the state of Vermont. She proved them wrong.".

"Abby Maria Hemenway's life and work offer a unique portrait of a 19th-century literary woman. Hemenway conceived and edited the Vermont Historical Gazetteer, a 5-volume compendium of the state's local history published between 1860 and 1892, a monumental work still in constant use today by historians and genealogists. Hemenway never married, and at the age of 36 she formally converted and entered the Catholic Church, which anchored her life for the bulk of her professional career."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[331]-336) and index.