Lucy Somerville Howorth
Subtitle: New Deal lawyer, politician, and feminist from the South
By: Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain ; with a Foreword by Anne Firor Scott.
Contributors: Swain, Martha H., 1929-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Howorth, Lucy Somerville, 1895-1997.; Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives -- Biography.; American Association of University Women -- Biography.; Women legislators -- Mississippi -- Biography.; Legislators -- Mississippi -- Biography.; Women lawyers -- Mississippi -- Biography.; Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.; New Deal, 1933-1939.; Feminists -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Girlhood in Greenville; title: "A whole human being," 1912 1922; title: "Hustling in the law," 1922 1927; title: Howorth and Howorth, attorneys-at-law, 1928 1931; title: "I have a few things to say" : the Mississippi Legislature, 1932 1934; title: A watchdog for women, 1935 1946; title: "I glory in being a feminist," 1947 1954; title: "Just being Cleveland folks" : retirement after 1957; title: "Nothing like living a long time" : the last years.