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We the women : career firsts of nineteenth-century America / Madeleine B. Stern ; wood engravings by John De Pol.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 403 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585268533
  • 9780585268538
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: We the women.DDC classification:
  • 920.72/0973/09034 20
LOC classification:
  • CT3260 .S73 1994eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Mary Ann Lee (ballerina) -- Ann S. Stephens (author of Beadle dime novels) -- Architects: Harriett Irwin ; Louise Bethune ; Sophia G. Hayden -- Sarah G. Bagley (telegrapher) -- Lucy Hobbs Taylor (dentist) -- Ellen H. Richards (first woman graduate of M.I.T.) -- Rebecca Rennell Dean (college professor) -- Isabel C. Barrows (stenographic court reporter for Congressional committees) -- Belva Ann Lockwood (U.S. Supreme Court) -- Rebecca W. Lukens (iron plate rolling industry) -- Victoria C. Woodhull (stockbroker) -- Candace Wheeler (textiles and interior decoration).
Summary: Biographical sketches of American women who were the first females to work in their field ; including the first stockbroker, dentist and college professor.
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Originally published: New York : Schulte, 1962. With new preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-385) and index.

Biographical sketches of American women who were the first females to work in their field ; including the first stockbroker, dentist and college professor.

Mary Ann Lee (ballerina) -- Ann S. Stephens (author of Beadle dime novels) -- Architects: Harriett Irwin ; Louise Bethune ; Sophia G. Hayden -- Sarah G. Bagley (telegrapher) -- Lucy Hobbs Taylor (dentist) -- Ellen H. Richards (first woman graduate of M.I.T.) -- Rebecca Rennell Dean (college professor) -- Isabel C. Barrows (stenographic court reporter for Congressional committees) -- Belva Ann Lockwood (U.S. Supreme Court) -- Rebecca W. Lukens (iron plate rolling industry) -- Victoria C. Woodhull (stockbroker) -- Candace Wheeler (textiles and interior decoration).

Print version record.

English.

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