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Book SynopsisMore than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Lucy Terry Prince, 1730-1821, Poet and Pioneer Ann Story, 1741-1817, Pioneer and Patriot Emma Willard, 1787-1870, Educating Women for the Republic Clarina Howard Nichols, 1810-1885, A Womanly Reformer Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, 1825-1913, A Vermont Poet Laureate Abby Maria Hemenway, 1825-1913, The Woman Who Saved Vermont’s History Rachael Robinson Elmer, 1878-1919, Independent Artist Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, Novelist and Crusader Electra Havemeyer Webb, 1888-1967, Born to Collect Helen Hartness Flanders, 1890-1972, Green Mountain Ballad Collector Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 1899-1976, Vermont’s Own Daughter Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, Raising Demons in the Green Mountains Selected ReferencesAbout the Author
