More than Petticoats: Remarkable Connecticut Women

Despite being the third smallest state, Connecticut can claim more than its share of remarkable women who have made lasting social, political, and cultural contributions to both their own state and to their nation. From Prudence Crandall, Connecticut's official State Heroine, who braved imprisonment for opening a school for black girls, to Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose classic Uncle Tom's Cabin urged the nation on a path towards abolition of slavery, to Margaret Fogarty Rudkin, who changed the nation's eating habits with her healthful bread made at Pepperidge Farm, Connecticut women have broken the rules to make their own and in the process improved their world, and ultimately ours, forever.

List of contents

(1) Introduction (2) Anna Warner Bailey (3) Julia Evalina Smith and Abby Haddassah Smith (4) Prudence Crandall (5) Harriet Beecher Stowe (6) Caroline Maria Hewins (7) Martha Minerva Franklin (8) Mary Jobe Akeley (9) Katharine Houghton Hepburn (10) Sophie Tucker (11) Margaret Fogarty Rudkin (12) Eva Lutz Butler (13) Gladys Tantaquidgeon

About the author

By Antonia Petrash

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Petrash, Petrash Antonia
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780762723713
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-2371-3
• Weight: 284 g
• 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; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travel guides; USA, TRAVEL / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, TRAVEL / United States / General, HISTORY / Women, Travel & holiday, Local History, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Travel and holiday, Gender studies: women and girls, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: New England, Connecticut;NEW ENGLAND;NORTHEAST