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245 0 _aNotable American women, 1607-1950 :
_ba biographical dictionary /
_cEdward T. James, editor ; Janet Wilson James, associate editor.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_cc1971-
300 _a3 v.
_c26 cm.
500 _aPrepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College.
505 _av. 1. A-F -- v. 2. G-O -- v. 3. P-Z.
520 _aThis 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
650 _aWomen
_zUnited States
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700 _aJames, Edward T.
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700 _aJames, Janet Wilson,
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942 _cALR
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