1. Creator/Author:
  2. Appleton, Thomas H., (1)

Kentucky women : their lives and times /

Authors:
McEuen, Melissa A., Appleton, Thomas H.,
Other Authors:
McEuen, Melissa A., 1961- editor.
Item ID:
71201700100036
Publisher:
Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
ISBN:
9780820347523; 9780820344522; 0820344524; 9780820344539; 0820344532
Series:
Southern women: their lives and times; Southern women (Athens, Ga.)
Call Number:
HQ1438.K4 K43 2015
Physical Description:
xii, 432 pages ; 23 cm.
Topic:
Women -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Women -- Kentucky -- History.
Kentucky -- Biography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-412) and index.; Machine generated contents note: Nonhelema Hokolesqua (1718 -- 1786), Jemima Boone Callaway (1762 -- 1829), and Matilda Lewis Threlkeld (1799 -- c. 1885) Searching for Kentucky's Female Frontier / Craig Thompson Friend -- Anne Pogue McGinty (c. 1735 -- 1815) and Anne McCarty Braden (1924 -- 2006) The Power of Place across Four Centuries / Catherine Fosl -- Mary Jane Warfield Clay (1815 -- 1900) Wifely Devotion, Divorce, and Rebirth in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky / William Kuby -- Emilie Todd Helm (1836 -- 1930) and Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 -- 1882) "We Weep Over Our Dead Together" / Angela Esco Elder -- Josie Underwood (1840 -- 1923) and Frances Dallam Peter (1843 -- 1864) Two Union Women in Civil War Kentucky / Andrea S. Watkins -- Laura Clay (1849 -- 1941) -- States' Rights and Southern Suffrage Reform / Mary Jane Smith -- Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866 -- 1948) Homegrown Heroine / Anya Jabour.; Katherine Pettit (1868 -- 1936) and May Stone (1867 -- 1946) The Cultural Politics of Mountain Reform / Sarah Case -- Enid Yandell (1869 -- 1934) Kentucky's Frontier Sculptor and "Bachelor Maid" / Juilee Decker -- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872 -- 1920) A Sense of Mission / Lindsey Apple -- Linda Neville (1873 -- 1961) "The Lady Who Helps Blind Children See" / James Duane Bolin -- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fouse (1875 -- 1952) Challenging Stereotypes and Building Community / Karen Cotton Mcdaniel -- Mary Breckinridge (1881 -- 1965) Kind Ambition and the Creation of the Frontier Nursing Service / Melanie Beals Goan -- Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908 -- 1986) A Writer's Life / Martha Billips -- Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers (1923 -- ) Purpose in Politics / Carolyn R. Dupont -- Martha Layne Collins (1936 -- ) Textbooks, Toyota, and Tenacity / John Paul Hill -- Nancy Newsom Mahaffey (1955 -- ) Preserving Heritage Foods in the "Ham Heartland" / Melissa A. Mceuen.; "Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development."-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
ocn881518483
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets