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Dramatic stories of ten women who left their stamp on America
Sonia and James Daugherty have again combined talents to produce a book of true Americana for boys and girls—with the same appeal and dramatic quality of Ten Brave Men.
Mrs. Daugherty, with care and historical insight, has written these stories of ten women whose personal stature adds to our heritage. Anne Hutchinson, in her courageous stand before the Puritan elders; Mary Lyon's founding Mount Holyoke as a college for women; sturdy Abigail Adams and Quaker Dolly Madison, steadfast at crucial moments; Dorothea Lynde Dix, gentle and firm, who campaigned for prison reform; Susan B. Anthony, valiant fighter for women's right to vote; and Eleanor Roosevelt's world-wide labors for peace and human rights—each and all celebrate women as doers and thinkers. Narcissa Whitman, pioneer; Julia Ward Howe, writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Ida Tarbell, who fearlessly investigated powerful economic dangers, belong to this company.
James Daugherty has made twenty black-and-white illustrations in the personal style which so distinguished Ten Brave Men.
—from the dust jacket
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