What America Owes to Women
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
52 chapters · 19 h 35 min · English
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As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman Past and Present; not in the way of boastful assertions, nor by pleading for her rights which have already been awarded her; but by statements of her achievements in the lines of literature, philanthropy, church work, education, science, industry, medicine, business, art, music, invention, home life, domestic science, etc., that hereby the subtle, yet powerful influence of woman in the development of this great country may be manifested and strengthened. Thus there shall be constructed a fitting memorial of the American Woman of the Past, and inspiring model for the American Woman of the Future.
We have endeavored to make this book a valuable Souvenir of the Columbian Exposition.
These portraits have been sketched by many pens, for no one writer could have accomplished the object desired.
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Chapters
1 Dedication, Preface and Introduction 10 min 2 Some Women in America History: What America owes to Isabella of Castile and to Madame LaFayette by Lydia Hoyt Farmer 29 min 3 Columbus at Santa Fe by Virginia P. Townsend 12 min 4 The Women of Plymouth Colony by Jane G. Austin 8 min 5 The Lady Arbella by Lucy Larcom 4 min 6 Puritan Womanhood: A Power in America by Linda T. Guilford 17 min 7 The Women of the American Revolution by Mrs. Elroy M. Avery 18 min 8 Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant 4 min 9 Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 1 54 min 10 Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 2 44 min 11 Women in the Home by the Editor and Wives and Daughters in the Home by Agnes Bailey Ormsbee 20 min 12 Domestic Science in American Homes, Editorial 25 min 13 Clergymen's Wives by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher 3 min 14 The Wives of Army Officers by Jessie Benton Fremont 10 min 15 The American Salon, Editorial 23 min 16 Social Leaders of Washington by Leonora B. Halsted 30 min 17 The Southern Woman, Past and Present by Mrs. Frank Leslie 10 min 18 Physical Culture of American Women by Annie Jenness Miller 7 min 19 The American Girl, Past and Present, Editorial 48 min 20 Every-day Women by Lucy M. Spelman and Farmers' Wives and Daughters by Jennie E. Hooker 14 min 21 Women In Literature: Women in Literature and Poetry, Editorial 33 min 22 Women Fiction Writers of America by Ellen Olney Kirk 31 min 23 Women Journalists in America by Susan E. Dickinson 19 min 24 Women in Education and Science, Editorial 19 min 25 Women as Teachers by Eliza Hardy Lord 28 min 26 Massachusetts Normal Schools by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells 21 min 27 Wellesley College Towards Liberal Education by Anne Eugenia Morgan 21 min 28 An American Queen by Gail Hamilton 50 min 29 Sketch of Maria Mitchell by Frances Fisher Wood 18 min 30 Women's Work at the Harvard Observatory by Helen Leah Reed 26 min 31 Women in Philanthropy, Church Work, Home, Missions and Charities: Woman's Progress by Frances E. Willard 17 min 32 The Work of Women During the War by Mary A. Livermore 10 min 33 Women's Work for Indians by Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton 28 min 34 The Woman's Club Movement by J. C. Croley (Jennie June) 34 min 35 The Influence of Women in American Politics by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster 16 min 36 Woman's Work in the Church, Editorial 48 min 37 Working Girls' Clubs by Grace H. Dodge 17 min 38 Woman's National Christian Temperance Union, Editorial and Young Women's Christian Temperance Work by Frances J. Barnes 17 min 39 Hospitals, Mission Schools, and Other Charities, Editorial and Sketch of Dorothea Lyned Dix by L. Elizabeth Price 24 min 40 Two Women Whome I Have Known by Mrs. Charles Henrotin 18 min 41 Women in Professions, Business and Trade: Women in Medicine by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D 19 min 42 Women in Law by Ada M. Bittenbender 53 min 43 American Women of the Drama by Lillian Whiting 20 min 44 Women in Business and Trade, Editorial 51 min 45 Queens of the Shop, the Workroom and the Tenement by Katharine Pearson Woods 25 min 46 Women Clerks in New York by The Marquise Clara Lanza 23 min 47 Women in Art and Music, Editorial 12 min 48 Women Artists by Maude Haywood 9 min 49 Women Art Patrons by Helen Evertson Smith 23 min 50 Exposition Notes: Address at the Dedicatory Ceremonies, October 21, 1892 by Mrs. Potter Palmer and Ode:- "Columbia's Banner" by Edna Dean Proctor 17 min 51 The Board of Lady Managers and The Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary 12 min 52 The Woman's Building, The Children's Building and Exhibits by Women 24 min
