More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women

Informationen zum Autor Mimi O'Malley has written more than fifty articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications and is the author of It Happened in Kentucky (Globe Pequot Press). Klappentext Moving portraits of sixteen independent women who helped make Kentucky what it is today More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women celebrates the women who shaped the Bluegrass State. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or political barriers to make contributions to society that still have an impact today. Read about:Catherine Spalding, the founder of a Catholic religious order and a prominent social workerJulia Marcum, a soldier who fought alongside her brethren in the Civil WarCaptain Mary Garretson Miller, the first woman to earn a riverboat pilot's licenseLaura Clay, the first woman to earn the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. president Each of these women demonstrated an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this captivating collection of biographies. Zusammenfassung More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women! 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Bluegrass State. Short! illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers! writers! entrepreneurs! and artists. Jane Coombs Catherine Spalding Margaret Garner Julia Marcum E. Belle Mitchell Captain Mary Garretson Miller Enid Yandell Patty S. Hill Sophonisba Breckinridge Laura Clay Mary Breckinridge Aunt Molly Jackson Laura Miller Derry Alice Allison Dunnigan

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Mimi malley, O&apos, Mimi O'malley, Mimi O''malley
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2012
• EAN: 9780762761487
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-6148-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: More Than Petticoats; More Than Petticoats Series; More Than Petticoats; More than Petticoats Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, Southeast, HISTORY / United States / General, Kentucky, South, History of the Americas