Synopses & Reviews
In a letter cautioning her husband to "Remember the Ladies," Abigail Adams makes a plea for women's rights. She realized that women had the potential for greatness if only their brethren would, as Sarah Grimke wrote in 1838, "take their feet from off our necks."
Cheryl Harness introduces readers to 100 illustrious American women. From colonial poet Phillis Wheatley and Civil War nurse Clara Barton to comic actress Lucille Ball and Vietnam Memorial architect Maya Ying Lin, she highlights ladies of all talents, races, and eras.
Cheering the advancements of recognizable leaders, the author also introduces readers to less familiar but equally important women. Her passion and humor reflect the attitudes of pioneers who pushed the boundaries of the feminine sphere to the limits--and then pushed a little further.
Synopsis
From Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman to the less well-known but equally important Belva Lockwood and Maya Ying Lin, Cheryl Harness has created a gloriously illustrated portrait of one hundred women who have helped shape our great nation. Perfect for Women's History Month!
About the Author
Cheryl Harness is grateful to the ambitious female writers and artists who broke a path and paved the way for her. "I grew up reading all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace," she explains with great fondness. Lois Lenski and Jessie Willcox Smith were favorite illustrators. Cheryl Harness deeply admires the trailblazers of colonial America as well-particularly Abigail Adams. "It amazes me how after working hard on a farm all day, taking care of the children with her husband away and the war so near, she could sit down at her desk and write such witty, insightful letters."
Highly acclaimed titles by Cheryl Harness include The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal, Three Young Pilgrims, Young Abe Lincoln, Ghosts of. the White House, George Washington, and Ghosts of the Twentieth Century. She lives in Independence, Missouri.