Charmers and cranks : twelve famous American women who defied the conventions / Ishbel Ross.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, 1965Description: xii, 306 p. : ill. 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • CT 3260 .R733 1965
Contents:
Madame Jumel.--Hetty Green.--Mrs. Frank Leslie.--Margaret and Kate Fox.--Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin.--Mrs. Jack Gardner.--Carry Nation.--Nellie Bly.--Isadora Duncan.--Aimee Semple McPherson.
Summary: Exposing the biographies of twelve extraordinary women, stressing their brilliant ideas about love, art, nature, religion, power, fame and money. Their marvelous role to society's total advancement was told in this book.
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Bibliography: p. 283-295.

Madame Jumel.--Hetty Green.--Mrs. Frank Leslie.--Margaret and Kate Fox.--Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin.--Mrs. Jack Gardner.--Carry Nation.--Nellie Bly.--Isadora Duncan.--Aimee Semple McPherson.

Exposing the biographies of twelve extraordinary women, stressing their brilliant ideas about love, art, nature, religion, power, fame and money. Their marvelous role to society's total advancement was told in this book.

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