This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like Ruth Benedict, Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Carole Lombard, Sojourner Truth, Pocahontas, Texas Guinan, the Everleigh sisters, Carrie Nation, Amelia Earhart. Here also are many names rescued from obscurity.

Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Other HUP Books by Paul Boyer

• Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
• Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
• When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture