More than petticoats.
By: Kate Hertzog.
Series: More than petticoats series
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762736379
Subjects: Women -- Pennsylvania -- History; Women -- Pennsylvania -- Biography; Pennsylvania -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Remarkable Pennsylvania women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sybilla Masters (1676-1720), American inventor; title: Lydia Darragh (1728-1789), house spy; title: Margaret Corbin (1751-1800), half-soldier, full hero; title: Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), seeker of equality; title: Rebecca Webb Lukens (1794-1854), industrial leader; title: Mary Ambler (1805-1868), first responder; title: Ann Preston (1813-1872), pioneering doctor; title: Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907), Civil War caretaker; title: Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915), traveling evangelist; title: Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), muckraking journalist; title: Nellie Bly (1864-1922), undercover reporter; title: Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), refrigeration specialist; title: Florence Seibert (1897-1991), disease fighter; title: Marian Anderson (1902-1993), singer for equality; title: Rachel Carson (1907-1964), illuminating ecologist.