Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays

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In 1977 when few serious historical monographs were devoted solely to girls, the Minnesota Historical Society Press published Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays. Now, 20 years later, the MNHS Press has issued a revised version of this landmark study. Barbara Stuhler and Gretchen Kreuter, the editors of the unique book, have added an essay on women’s accomplishments over the past 20 years, discussing the questions that confront women within the 1990s and highlighting such achievements as the selection of judges, business leaders, and sports figures who have risen to prominence. For this new edition the editors up to date the list of women within the Minnesota legislature and added brief biographies of any other 104 women.

These biographical essays cover women from the early years of Minnesota Territory to the hole days of the feminist movement and include: educators Harriet E. Bishop, Mary Molloy, Ada Comstock Notestein, Maria Louise Sanford, and Agnes, Henrietta, and Nora Larson; political and labor leaders Anna Dickie Oleson and Eva McDonald Valesh; social worker Catheryne Cooke Gilman; writers Kate Donnelly and Maud Hart Lovelace; editor Jane Grey Swisshelm; librarian Gratia Alta Countryman; peace activist Fanny Brin; philanthropist Alice O’Brien; ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore.

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