Hetty
Subtitle: the genius and madness of America's first female tycoon
By: Charles Slack
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ECCO
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780060542566
Subjects: Millionaires; Women capitalists and financiers; Biography
Other titles: America's first female tycoon
Description: Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able to vote.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: New Bedford; title: Aunt Sylvia; title: A test of wills; title: Alone in a crowd; title: Self-imposed exile; title: Pride and pain; title: Hetty storms Wall Street; title: The view from Brooklyn; title: Grooming a protégé; title: Thou shalt not pass; title: A lady of your age; title: Across the river; title: If my daughter is happy; title: The hat was "Hetty" Green; title: I'll outlive all of them!; title: High times at Round Hill; title: Scattered to the wind.