Deborah Clifford

Broschiertes Buch

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780762743063
• ISBN-10: 0762743069
• Artikelnr.: 22196660