More than Petticoats: Remarkable Indiana Women (More than Petticoats Series)

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Indiana Women profiles the lives of ten of the Hoosier state's most important historical figures. With enduring strength and vibrant, pioneering spirit, these remarkable women, each in their separate fields, helped build the proud history of America's nineteenth state. Meet May Wright Sewall, a women's suffragist and lecturer often mentioned in the same breath with Susan B. Anthony. Gene Stratton Porter was a writer whose environmentally-aware novels sold millions of copies in her lifetime and Madam C.J. Walker, philanthropist and entrepreneur, was, at the time of her death, the wealthiest African-American woman in the country. Each of these women, all born before 1900, worked against the sentiments of the day to break down the social and cultural barriers erected against their success. Read about their extraordinary lives in this captivating collection of biographies.… (more)