Famous American Women (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hope Stoddard
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1797–1970
- Setting: The United States, France, Italy, Germany, and Peru
- Principal Characters: Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, Mary Cassatt, Emily Dickinson, Edith Hamilton, Rosa Ponselle, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Chase Smith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Social reform, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Women, Politicians, Dancing or dancers, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Peru or Peruvians, Biography
- Locales: Peru, France, United States, Germany, Italy
Form and Content
Hope Stoddard devotes approximately nine to fifteen pages of biographical material to each individual covered in Famous American Women. Her subjects include such well-known historical figures as Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Amelia Earhart, Mary Baker Eddy, Margaret Fuller, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Margaret Mead, Lucretia Mott, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, and Harriet Tubman. Stoddard also provides biographies of several famous singers, dancers, artists, and writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Marian Anderson,...
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