Enhanced by primary sources, images, and sidebars, this engaging biography of one of the suffrage movement's most inspiring leaders paints a vivid picture of what life was like for a woman in nineteenth-century America. Readers will be inspired by Anthony's tireless fight to improve women's standing, an effort that changed the course of history.

A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork...

Portrays the life of the American poet who wrote the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

A biography of the woman who founded Hull-House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, and who later became involved in the international peace movement.

A biography of the determined labor organizer of the early twentieth century who became known as Mother Jones.

"Describes the life and accomplishments of the founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, where she provided aid to immigrant families and whose legacy is still evident today." --