Demeter's daughters
Subtitle: the women who founded America, 1587-1787
By: by Selma R. Williams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Biography.; Women -- History.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Description: Details the varied activities of colonial women, the extensive legal rights they enjoyed, and the difficulties they faced in a new land. Includes bibliographical sketches of representative women of that period.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 332-345.
Includes index.