TY - BOOK AU - James, Edward T. AU - James, Janet Wilson, TI - Notable American women, 1607-1950: a biographical dictionary SN - 674627342 PY - 1971///- CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Women KW - United States N1 - Prepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College; v. 1. A-F -- v. 2. G-O -- v. 3. P-Z N2 - This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like Ruth Benedict, Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Carole Lombard, Sojourner Truth, Pocahontas, Texas Guinan, the Everleigh sisters, Carrie Nation, Amelia Earhart. Here also are many names rescued from obscurity. www.alibris.com ER -