| Description |
3 volumes ; 27 cm |
| Note |
"Prepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College." |
| Contents |
Biographies A-F -- Biographies G-O -- Biographies P-Z. |
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Abolitionists -- Actresses and theatre managers -- Anthropologists and folklorists -- Architects and interior decorators -- Art collectors and patrons -- Art critics and historians -- Art educators -- Astronomers -- Authors -- Biologists -- Botanists and horticulturists -- Chemists and physicists -- Children's authors -- Circus performers -- Civil war figures -- Classicists -- College administrators -- Composers -- Dancers -- Educational reformers -- Educators of the handicapped -- Entrepreneurs -- Explorers and travelers -- Feminists -- Film actresses and directors. |
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Geographer and geologist -- Hawaiian nobility -- Health reform advocates -- Heroines -- Historians -- Historical preservationists -- Home economics -- Illustrators -- Indian captives -- Indian reform advocates -- Indian women -- Inventors -- Kindergartners -- Labor leaders -- Labor reformers -- Lawyers -- Lecturers and orators -- Librarians -- Literary scholars -- Magazine editors -- Ministers and evangelists -- Missionaries -- Missionary society leaders -- Mormon women. |
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Music educators and patrons -- Naturalists -- Negro women -- Newspaperwomen -- Nurses -- Painters -- Peace advocates -- Performing musicians -- Philanthropists -- Philosophers -- Photographer -- Physicians -- Political figures -- Printmakers -- Prison reformers -- Psychologists -- Religious educators -- Religious founders and leaders -- School founders and administrators -- Sculptors -- Settlement houseleaders. |
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Social and civic reformers -- Social economists -- Social leaders -- Social workers -- Socialists and radicals -- Suffragists -- Temperance advocates -- Translators -- Welfare work leaders -- Wives of the presidents -- Women's club leaders. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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| Indexed Term |
American women, 1607-1950 Biographical dictionaries |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
James, Edward T., editor.
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James, Janet Wilson, 1918-1987 editor.
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Boyer, Paul S., editor.
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Radcliffe College.
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| ISBN |
0674627318 |
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0674627342 |
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