Women Who Shaped History (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henrietta Henkle
- First Published: 1966
- Time of Work: The nineteenth century
- Setting: New England and the South
- Principal Characters: Dorothea Dix, Prudence Crandall, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Harriet Tubman, Mary Baker Eddy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Social reform, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Religion, Doctors, Women’s issues, Women, Biography, Religious life, Society of Friends or Quakers
- Locales: South (U.S.), New England
Form and Content
In Women Who Shaped History, Henrietta Buckmaster informs young readers about six courageous American women of the nineteenth century, each of whom dared to effect change in attitudes, laws, and services on behalf of the ill and oppressed in American society. A black-and-white portrait preceeds each chapter. All the women were born between 1802 and 1821, so their lives occasionally intertwined and influenced one another.
Dorothea Dix brought about the first state and national laws ensuring humane care for mental patients and penal inmates....
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