| Description |
143 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-140) and index. |
| Contents |
Hannah Bunce Watson Hudson, revolutionary newspaper publisher: 1749-1807 -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney, independent woman writer: 1791-1865 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Courageous abolitionist and author: 1811-1896 -- Elizabeth Colt, first lady of Hartford: 1826-1905 -- Virginia Thrall Smith, pioneering children's rights activist: 1836-1903 -- Dotha Bushnell Hillyer, forward-thinking founder of the Bushnell: 1843-1932 -- Mary Townsend Seymour, rights champion: 1873-1957 -- Beatrice Fox Auerbach, business leader and philanthropist: 1887-1968 -- Rachel Taylor Milton, founder of greater Hartford's urban league: 1901-1995 -- Hilda Crosby Standish, medical director of Connecticut's first birth control clinic: 1902-2005 -- Ella Grasso, groundbreaking governor: 1919-1981 -- Edythe Gaines, first African American and female schools superintendent: 1922-2006. |
| Summary |
Connecticut’s capital has served as home to some of the most influential women in the state’s history, but few know the stories of their lives and accomplishments. Nineteenth-century abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a catalyst for the Civil War. Ella Grasso was the first woman elected governor in the United States. Hannah Bunce Watson, publisher of the Hartford Courant, never skipped a single edition during the Revolutionary War. Through these and many more inspiring profiles, author and journalist Cynthia Wolfe Boynton chronicles the struggles and triumphs of some of Hartford’s most remarkable women. |
| Subject |
Hartford (Conn.) -- Biography.
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Women -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781626193208 |
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1626193207 |
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