More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Deborah Pickman Clifford has lived in Vermont since 1966. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she haspublished three biographies of nineteenth-century American women: Julia Ward Howe, Lydia Maria Child, and the Vermont historian, Abby Maria Hemenway. Back in the 1980s she served as the first woman president of both the Vermont Historical Society and the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. She has also written and lectured widely on the history of Vermont women. Most recently, she and her husband, Nicholas, are the joint authors of The Troubled Roar of the Waters: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931, published by the University Press of New England in 2007. Residents of New Haven, a small town near Middlebury, the Cliffords have four daughters and six grandchildren.
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Introduction Lucy Terry Prince 1730-1821 Poet and Pioneer Ann Story 1741-1817 Pioneer and Patriot Emma Willard 1787-1870 Educating Women for the Republic Clarina Howard Nichols 1810-1885 A Womanly Reformer Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr 1825-1913 A Vermont Poet Laureate Abby Maria Hemenway 1825-1913 The Woman Who Saved Vermont’s History Rachael Robinson Elmer 1878-1919 Independent Artist Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958 Novelist and Crusader Electra Havemeyer Webb 1888-1967 Born to Collect Helen Hartness Flanders 1890-1972 GreenMountain Ballad Collector Consuelo Northrop Bailey 1899-1976 Vermont’s Own Daughter Shirley Jackson 1916-1965 Raising Demons in the Green Mountains Selected References About the Author
Introduction Lucy Terry Prince 1730-1821 Poet and Pioneer Ann Story 1741-1817 Pioneer and Patriot Emma Willard 1787-1870 Educating Women for the Republic Clarina Howard Nichols 1810-1885 A Womanly Reformer Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr 1825-1913 A Vermont Poet Laureate Abby Maria Hemenway 1825-1913 The Woman Who Saved Vermont’s History Rachael Robinson Elmer 1878-1919 Independent Artist Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958 Novelist and Crusader Electra Havemeyer Webb 1888-1967 Born to Collect Helen Hartness Flanders 1890-1972 GreenMountain Ballad Collector Consuelo Northrop Bailey 1899-1976 Vermont’s Own Daughter Shirley Jackson 1916-1965 Raising Demons in the Green Mountains Selected References About the Author
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