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- catalog abstract "In Hearts of Fire, Kemp Battle celebrates a diverse and deeply satisfying array of folk heroines and other great American women - memorable midwives, teachers, medicine women, historians, mothers, spiritual healers, and suffragettes - who represent an astonishing range of experience and give new meaning to the term pioneer. Gathered from books, journals, diaries, newspapers, and letters spanning three centuries, these fascinating stories highlight the American woman's journey toward identity, independence, and self-creation. They serve to remind us, yet again, that America's faith in an individual's right to the pursuit of happiness has been tested repeatedly by our nation's women. These pages are filled with women like Fanny Fern, the first female newspaper columnist in America, whose early and eloquent review of Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands out as a vivid and prescient testimonial; Ernestine Rose, who fled from an oppressive father in Poland to become one of the first leaders of the American suffragette movement; Sojourner Truth, whose wisdom and insight into the nature of slavery humbles us still; Dorothea Moulton Balano, a seafaring woman whose infectiously exuberant diaries would inspire anyone to go to sea; Luella Day, a practicing physician, who took off for an adventure in the Yukon during the gold rush only to confront the surprising specter of poverty and suffering in the Klondike; and Lynda Van Devanter, an army nurse in Vietnam, whose memories of war offer us a glimpse into the powerful idealism and indomitable will necessary to survive the worst traumas. Whether they are of major or minor importance to the narrative of American history, the many women who come alive in these pages represent a vivid part of our national character and the path of our nation's destiny. Hearts of Fire honors these great women, whose defiance of expectations and conformity was sometimes dangerous, often arduous, and always inspiring.".
- catalog contributor b10167203.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Ceremonies of childbirth(Hopi) -- Birth on the trail -- Onnie Lee Logan -- Weighing the baby -- Diana and her baby -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's lesson in self-reliance -- Wartime birth -- Birth and infancy superstitions -- Health tips in colonial America -- Lydia Maria Child's household hints -- American cooking, frontier style -- Isabella Bird -- Culpepper's pride -- Billie holiday gets her start -- Some things my ma used to say -- Abigail Adams -- Ernestine Rose -- Lilliam Hellman -- Ellen Glasgow -- Tallulah Bankhead -- Katherine Hepburn -- Bette Davis -- Lucy Stone -- Tootie Brocker -- Ida Tarbell -- Anna Howard Shaw -- Sister Blandina Segale -- Mary McNair Matthews -- Dorothea Balano -- Kate Shelley -- Fanny Fern -- Susan B. Anthony".
- catalog description "Frances Gage -- Magaret Sanger -- Elizabeth Banks -- Isadora Duncan -- Amelia Earhart -- Sylvia Beach -- Caresse Crosby -- Marian Anderson -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Mahalia Jackson -- Shirley MacLaine -- Mary Read -- Anne Bonney -- Calamity Jane -- Belle Starr -- Cattle Kate -- Poker Alice Tubbs -- Lizzie Borden -- Cordelia Botkin -- Cassie Chadwick -- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow -- Hannah Arnett -- Lydia Darrah -- Sara Emma Edmonds -- Clara Barton -- Belle Boyd -- Jeannette Rankin -- Anne Hutchinson -- Jemima Wilkinson -- Sacajawea -- Hannah Fox -- Frances Anne Kemble -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Harriet Tubman -- Sojourner Truth -- Julia Ward Howe -- Angelina Grimke -- Sarah Grimke -- Lucretia Mott -- Carry Nation -- Abigail Scott Duniway -- Mother Jones -- Emma Goldman -- Helen Keller -- Rosa Parks -- Virginia Dare.".
- catalog description "In Hearts of Fire, Kemp Battle celebrates a diverse and deeply satisfying array of folk heroines and other great American women - memorable midwives, teachers, medicine women, historians, mothers, spiritual healers, and suffragettes - who represent an astonishing range of experience and give new meaning to the term pioneer. Gathered from books, journals, diaries, newspapers, and letters spanning three centuries, these fascinating stories highlight the American woman's journey toward identity, independence, and self-creation. They serve to remind us, yet again, that America's faith in an individual's right to the pursuit of happiness has been tested repeatedly by our nation's women.".
- catalog description "These pages are filled with women like Fanny Fern, the first female newspaper columnist in America, whose early and eloquent review of Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands out as a vivid and prescient testimonial; Ernestine Rose, who fled from an oppressive father in Poland to become one of the first leaders of the American suffragette movement; Sojourner Truth, whose wisdom and insight into the nature of slavery humbles us still; Dorothea Moulton Balano, a seafaring woman whose infectiously exuberant diaries would inspire anyone to go to sea; Luella Day, a practicing physician, who took off for an adventure in the Yukon during the gold rush only to confront the surprising specter of poverty and suffering in the Klondike; and Lynda Van Devanter, an army nurse in Vietnam, whose memories of war offer us a glimpse into the powerful idealism and indomitable will necessary to survive the worst traumas.".
- catalog description "Whether they are of major or minor importance to the narrative of American history, the many women who come alive in these pages represent a vivid part of our national character and the path of our nation's destiny. Hearts of Fire honors these great women, whose defiance of expectations and conformity was sometimes dangerous, often arduous, and always inspiring.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 437 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hearts of fire.".
- catalog identifier "0517703971".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hearts of fire.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, N.Y. : Harmony Books,".
- catalog relation "Hearts of fire.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Folklore United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ1410 .B38 1997".
- catalog subject "Women United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Women United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women heroes United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women heroes United States Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Women heroes United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ceremonies of childbirth(Hopi) -- Birth on the trail -- Onnie Lee Logan -- Weighing the baby -- Diana and her baby -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's lesson in self-reliance -- Wartime birth -- Birth and infancy superstitions -- Health tips in colonial America -- Lydia Maria Child's household hints -- American cooking, frontier style -- Isabella Bird -- Culpepper's pride -- Billie holiday gets her start -- Some things my ma used to say -- Abigail Adams -- Ernestine Rose -- Lilliam Hellman -- Ellen Glasgow -- Tallulah Bankhead -- Katherine Hepburn -- Bette Davis -- Lucy Stone -- Tootie Brocker -- Ida Tarbell -- Anna Howard Shaw -- Sister Blandina Segale -- Mary McNair Matthews -- Dorothea Balano -- Kate Shelley -- Fanny Fern -- Susan B. Anthony".
- catalog tableOfContents "Frances Gage -- Magaret Sanger -- Elizabeth Banks -- Isadora Duncan -- Amelia Earhart -- Sylvia Beach -- Caresse Crosby -- Marian Anderson -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Mahalia Jackson -- Shirley MacLaine -- Mary Read -- Anne Bonney -- Calamity Jane -- Belle Starr -- Cattle Kate -- Poker Alice Tubbs -- Lizzie Borden -- Cordelia Botkin -- Cassie Chadwick -- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow -- Hannah Arnett -- Lydia Darrah -- Sara Emma Edmonds -- Clara Barton -- Belle Boyd -- Jeannette Rankin -- Anne Hutchinson -- Jemima Wilkinson -- Sacajawea -- Hannah Fox -- Frances Anne Kemble -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Harriet Tubman -- Sojourner Truth -- Julia Ward Howe -- Angelina Grimke -- Sarah Grimke -- Lucretia Mott -- Carry Nation -- Abigail Scott Duniway -- Mother Jones -- Emma Goldman -- Helen Keller -- Rosa Parks -- Virginia Dare.".
- catalog title "Hearts of fire : great women of American lore and legend / [edited by] Kemp Battle.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".