Women who made a difference
By: [Malcolm Forbes ; with Jeff Bloch]
Contributors: Bloch, Jeff
Edition: 1st Fireside ed.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780671748661
Copyright date: 1990
Subjects: Dictionaries; Biography; Women
Description: Presents the inspiring tales of 100 women whose talents and achievements changed our world.
Notes: "A Fireside book."
Table of contents: title: Queen Alexandra.; title: Virginia Apgar.; title: Aspasia.; title: Sarah Todd Astor.; title: Delia Bacon.; title: James Barry.; title: Sylvia Beach.; title: Amelia Bloomer.; title: Nellie Bly.; title: Boudicca.; title: Louise Boyd.; title: Laura Bridgman.; title: Margaret "Molly" Brown.; title: Anna Carroll.; title: Mary Chesnut.; title: Elsie De Wolfe.; title: Abigail Duniway.; title: Margaret Eaton.; title: Sarah Emma Edmonds.; title: Mary Moody Emerson.; title: Dorothy Eustis.; title: Minna / Aida Everleigh.; title: Fannie Farmer.; title: Jane Franklin.; title: Rosalind Franklin.; title: Jessie Benton Fremont.; title: Myra Clark Gaines.; title: Sophie Germain.; title: Irene Langhorne Gibson.; title: Mary Katherine Goddard.; title: Rebecca Gratz.; title: Hetty Green.; title: Rose O'Neal Greenhow.; title: Peggy Guggenheim.; title: Anne Hutchinson.; title: Hypatia.; title: Anna Jarvis.; title: Pope Joan.; title: Mother Jones.; title: Frances Kelsey.; title: Khadija.; title: Mary Kingsley.; title: Margaret Knight.; title: Rase Knox.; title: Pannonica de Koenigswarter.; title: Margaret Getchell LaForge.; title: Florence Lawrence.; title: Ida Lewis.; title: Ann Lohman "Madame Restell".; title: Mabel Dodge Luhan.; title: Clara Maass.; title: Molly Maguire.; title: Malinche.; title: Mary Mallon.; title: Elsa Maxwell.; title: Katharine McCormick.; title: Jane McCrea.; title: Fanny Mendelssohn.; title: Perle Mesta.; title: Julia Morgan.; title: Belle Moskowitz.; title: Mary Murray.; title: Caroline Norton.; title: Mrs. O'Leary.; title: Bertha Palmer.; title: Fanny Palmer.; title: Cynthia Ann Parker.; title: Hannah Callowhill Penn.; title: Mary Pennington.; title: Eliza Lucas Pinckney.; title: Lydia Pinkham.; title: Molly Pitcher.; title: Mary Ellen Pleasant.; title: Madame de Pompadour.; title: Ida Rosenthal.; title: Anne Newport Royall.; title: Sacagawea.; title: Hester Stanhope.; title: Belle Starr.; title: Margarete Steiff.; title: Lucy Stone.; title: Mary Surratt.; title: Bertha Von Suttner.; title: Ida Tarbell.; title: Annie Taylor.; title: Theodora the Senatrix.; title: Julia Tuttle.; title: Madame C.J. Walker.; title: Ida Wells.; title: Edith Bolling Wilson.; title: Victoria Woodhull.; title: Mary Wortley Montagu.; title: Ann Eliza Young.