Dreams into Deeds (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith
- First Published: 1985
- Time of Work: 1830–1970
- Setting: Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, Europe, and Asia
- Principal Characters: Jane Addams, Marian Anderson, Rachel Carson, Alice Hamilton, Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), Juliette Low, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Babe Didrikson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Social reform, Women, Singing or singers, Anthropology or anthropologists, Athletes, Environment or environmental health, Women’s rights, Biography, Clubs, social, Girl Scouts
- Locales: New York, Asia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Indiana
Form and Content
In Dreams into Deeds: Nine Women Who Dared, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith create short biographies of the lives of nine American women who became famous for their work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter of the book is a self-contained biography and is outlined in much the same format: a fictional vignette of an incident from childhood, particulars of birth and family, education, career choice and history, secrets of personal success, and tributes from admirers.
In the fictionalized vignette, the authors describe a girlhood...
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