Lives of Girls Who Became Famous (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Автор:Sarah Knowles Bolton Год: 2009 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 260 ISBN: 9781409971061 Includes short biographies of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucretia Mott, Mary A Livermore, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Maria Mitchell, Louisa M Alcott, Mary Lyon, Harriet G Hosmer, Madame de Stael, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "George Eliot", Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, Florence Nightingale, Lady Brassey, Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Jean Ingelow. The author, Sarah Knowles Bolton, (1841-1916) was born in Farmington, Connecticut to parents John Segar Knowles and Mary Elizabeth Miller Knowles. At age 11 she met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1866 she married Charles E. Bolton, a merchant and philanthropist. She wrote extensively for the press, was one of the first corresponding secretaries of the Woman's national temperance union, was associate editor of the Boston "Congregationalist" (1878-81), and travelled for two years in Europe, studying profit-sharing, female higher education, and other social questions. Her writings encourage readers to...
