Women though history
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
(June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896)American author and abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Connecticut in 1811. She was the seventh child of her father Lyman Beecher (a Protestant preacher), and his first wife, Roxana Foote.
In 1824 she went to Hartford to study in her sister Catherine's school - the Hartford Female Seminary.
Harriet Beecher Stowe married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a biblical scholar, on January 1836.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is most well known for her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. After the book was published, she started speaking against slavery in the US and Europe. Some historians claim that the controversy about her book was one of the reasons for the American Civil War (1861). After the war was over, Harriet Beecher Stowe had boarding homes and schools built for the newly freed slaves.
Her writing did not stop with Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing career spanned fifty one years. During that time she published thirty books and many short stories and articles.
Harriet Beecher Stowe links
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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About Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Books about Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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Florence Nightingale
(12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910)founder of modern nursing
Florence was named after the city of her birth. From 1844, when she became an advocate for improved medical care in infirmaries, through her help in the Crimean War to her death at age 90, she was constantly trying to improve the medical system.
Florence Nightingale was one of the few people that connected sanitary conditions and healing.
When she was younger, Florence Nightingale was tutored in mathematics by James Joseph Sylvester. That was probably how (years later) she was able to invent a type of statistical diagram called the "polar-area diagram" to demonstrate the causes of death in the army.
Four year after the close of the Crimean war, in 1856, Florence established the Nightingale School for Nurses in London with money raised in tribute to her.
In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded her the Royal Red Cross. In 1907, she became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. In 1908, she was given the Honourary Freedom of the City of London.
Florence Nightingale links
- Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia
- Florence Nightingale From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Florence Nightingale Museum
- The Florence Nightingale Museum celebrates the excellent contribution to nursing of Florence Nightingale, the “Lady with the Lamp” of the Crimean War, her subsequent work on public health reform, the development of nurse training and education.
- Florence Nightingale's Polar-Area Diagram
- Example of a polar-area diagram invented by Florence Nightingale.
- Florence Nightingale Paper Doll Page 1 of 2
- This Paper Doll is Florence Nightingale. All you have to do is print this page right from your browser. Use the heaviest stock that will work in
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- This is a memorial to Florence Nightingale.
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Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
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Florence Nightingale To Her Nurses
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Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not. By Florence Nightingale.
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Lucy Stone
(August 13, 1818 - October 19, 1893)American suffragist
First recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage.
She was upset that her brothers could get a formal education, but she could not. Her father justified that action by his interpretation of the bible. Lucy Stone decided that she would learn Hebrew and Greek as an adult so she could translate the bible properly.
In 1843, Lucy saved enough money to go to Oberli College in Ohio - the first college in the country to admit women and blacks. In 1847 she became the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree.
Her speech in 1850 was listed as a reason Susan B. Anthony started working for the suffrage cause.
Lucy Stone's Link List
- Lucy Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lucy Stone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 19, 1893) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909). - Lucy Stone - from Oberlin College
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Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
Lucy Stone, "American reformer, who was a pioneer in the movement for women's rights. She was born near West Brookfield, Mass., on Aug.
13, 1818. - Lucy Stone - A Soul As Free As the Air
- Lucy Stone: known as the woman who kept her own name after marriage, but involved far more deeply in the struggle for women's rights.
- Storiesalive: Lucy Stone
- "Meet Lucy Stone" is a dramatic presentation by prizewinning storyteller and performer, Judith Black.
Black introduces you to Lucy Stone, a woman many called "the shining star" of the anti-slavery and woman's rights movements, and gives you a view of mid 19th-century America through the eyes of a woman who spent her life working to make the world better.
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History of Abigail Adams
b.1744 -- d.1818Wife of John Adams and Mother of John Quincy Adams
Abigail was born in 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She married John Quincy Adams in 1764.
Abigail Adams was known for advocating that education in the public schools to be equal for both girls and boys. She didn't have formal education, instead was taught at home.
Abigail wrote many letters to John when he was off on one of his many trips. Those letters are a great snapshot of the lives of people during the American revolution.
She died in 1818, and is buried next to her husband in the grounds of United First Parish Church.
Abigail Adams Links
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/abigailadams/
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
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