The varieties of women's experiences
Subtitle: portraits of Southern women in the post-Civil War century
By: edited by Larry Eugene Rivers & Canter Brown Jr.
Contributors: Rivers, Larry E., 1950-; Brown, Canter.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780813034126
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951; Southern States -- History -- 1951-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Catharine Campbell Hart, 1823-1897 : the uncertainties of life as a widow / Canter Brown Jr.; title: Ellen Call Long, 1825-1905 : a thorough lady / Tracy J. Revels; title: Victoria Seward Varn Brandon Sherrill, 1843-1926 : community builder / James M. Denham; title: Mary E.C. Day Smith, 1851-1903 : Northern-born mission worker in the post-Civil War South / Daria Willia; title: Mary Barr Munroe, 1852-1922 : South Florida's pioneer zealot / Arva Moore Parks; title: María Valdés de Gutsens, 1860-1941 : the soul of Key West's Mercedes hospital / Consuelo E. Stebbins; title: Louise Cecilia Fleming, 1862-1899 : medical missionary / Larry Eugene Rivers; title: Adella Hunt Logan, 1863-1915 : educator, woman's suffrage leader, and confidant of Booker T. Washington / Terrance D. Smith and Sally J. Zepeda; title: Florence Johnson Hunt, 1866-1953 : days of labor of an African American woman / Fred R. van Hartesveldt; title: Selena Sloan Butler, 1872-1964 : Atlanta club leader, reformer, educator / David H. Jackson Jr.; title: Gertrude Dzialynski Corbet, 1874-1931 : "Miss Dynamite," a Jewish woman in public life in the Progressive-Era South / Canter Brown Jr.; title: Eartha Mary Magdalene White, 1876-1974 : the gentle community activist / Carolyn Williams; title: Elizabeth Benton Moore, 1878-1932 : education and community activism at Georgia's Dorchester Academy / Dawn J. Herd-Clark; title: Jerenia Valentine Dial Reid, 1879-1962 : woman's work by a pioneer of African American nursing / Esther Spencer.