Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3) [Paperback]

Edward T. James (Editor), Janet Wilson James (Editor), Paul Boyer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1971

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.

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Review

Notable American Women, a three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization. (Life )

The life stories of 1,300 remarkable American women. The sisterhood is here in all its many faces. (Helen Vendler New York Times Book Review )

American history at its most moving moments. (Saturday Evening Post )

A remarkable assemblage. (Times Literary Supplement )

Long needed, this publication is especially welcome today when there is an upsurge of interest in women's history. (American Historical Review )

Constructed with care and with an eye for detail, accuracy, ease of use. (Library Journal )

About the Author

Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Product Details

• Paperback: 3152 pages
• Publisher: Belknap Press (January 1, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0674627342
• ISBN-13: 978-0674627345
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.3 x 3.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #578,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Notable American Women of the Past, May 22, 2000

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This review is from: Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. THREE VOLUMES (Volumes 1-3) (Paperback)

As a teacher of American Literature for almost 20 years and now a librarian in a high school this 3 set volume has been invaluable to students who want to find out about women who contributed to American society. The well known names are profiled but more than that, the more obscure contibutors are documented. Students have appreciated finding what they need and then get excited to discover more information about women other than the one person they may have been assigned to research.