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Fifteen notable women from Pennsylvania are brought to life through this series of easy-to-read biographies and archival photo portraits. Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is profiled, as well as Ann Preston, a doctor who was influential in the founding of Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. You'll also meet war heroines, social reformers and inventors from the earliest settlements of the Keystone state through the early 1900s. Kate Hertzog is a writer and editor, and the author of "Insiders' Guide to Gettysburg," She lives in Mechanicsburg. Sybilla Masters (1676-1720), American inventor -- Lydia Darragh (1728-1789), house spy -- Margaret Corbin (1751-1800), half-soldier, full hero -- Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), seeker of equality -- Rebecca Webb Lukens (1794-1854), industrial leader -- Mary Ambler (1805-1868), first responder -- Ann Preston (1813-1872), pioneering doctor -- Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907), Civil War caretaker -- Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915), traveling evangelist -- Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), muckraking journalist -- Nellie Bly (1864-1922), undercover reporter -- Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), refrigeration specialist -- Florence Seibert (1897-1991), disease fighter --

Author

Kate Hertzog

Publisher

Guilford, Conn.: TwoDot

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780762736379

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography