Bell, M. (1930). Margaret Fuller.

Abstract: "Her book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was an epoch-making book and her power to impress her personality and her greatness of soul on those around her did more than anything else to bring the acknowledgment and the recognition that women had an intellectual and spiritual contribution to make, as great as that of men."

Bradford, G. (1916). Portraits of Women.

Abstract: Discussions of the following women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady Holland, Miss Austen, Madame D'Arblay, Mrs. Pepys, Madame De Sevigne, Madame Du Deffand, Madame De Choiseul, and Eugenie De Guerin.

Cochran, J. (1987). Jackie Cochran: The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in Aviation History.

Abstract: "Jackie was tough, not hard, tough. She was a woman who would never be stopped by the notion, 'This is not something a woman ought to do.'"

Cooper, K. (1946). Anna Zinged: Mother of Freedom.

Abstract: "Had she labored in the religious world, she would have received ecclesiastic homage by the church of her faith. Having worked for the temporal welfare of people, her successful efforts never were recognized in her lifetime."

Gluck, S. (1976). From Parlor to Prison: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives.

Abstract: "In this vivid and unique recreation of the American suffrage struggle, five unknown women from various economic, regional, and social background reveal, in their own voices, what it was like to be a suffragist six decades ago." Includes the stories of Sylvie Thygesesn, Jessie Butler, Miriam Allen deFord, Laura Seiler,and Ernestine Ketter.

Gould, J. (1996). Season of Adventure: Traveling Tales and Outdoor Journeys of Women Over 50.

Abstract: "Grabbing their backpacks, passports and a lifetime of experience, the women in this inspirational collection prove once and for all that the spirit of adventure does not wane with age."

Hellman, L. (1976). Scoundrel Time.

Abstract: "In 1952, Lillian Hellman refused to name other people - although she offered to talk about herself - before the Un-American Activities Committee. For this singular act of moral courage she paid dearly...Now Lillian Hellman names names as she writes her most intimate, painful and moving memoir - her personal history of an unfortunate era."

Josephson, H. (1974). Jeannette Rankin.

Abstract: "Jeannette Rankin was our first congresswoman, elected to that office even before women had the right to vote."

Lash, J. (1972). Eleanor: The Years Alone.

Abstract: "...we see Eleanor, standing alone, free to say whatever she wished, earning from both president and the man in the street the title of First Lady of the World."

Lawrence-Lightfoot, S. (1994). I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation.

Abstract: "Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot reveals the complex, nuanced lives of six African-American achievers," including Katie Cannon, Charles Ogletree, Toni Schiesler, Tony Earls, Cheryle Wills, and Orlando Bagwell.

Lerner, G. (1967). The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition.

Abstract: "In their anti-slavery work Sarah and Angelina Grimke had to overcome the prejudices of society in regard to women. The first American-born women to take to the public platform, they were also the first to assert woman's rights.

Merriam, E. (1971). Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives.

Abstract: "The women who speak for themselves: Eliza Southgate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maria Mitchell, Mary Ann Loughborough, Arvazine Angeline Cooper, Anna Howard Shaw, Susie King Taylor, "Mother" Mary Jones, Elizabeth Gertrude Stern, and Mountain Wolf Woman."

Nagel, P. (1987). The Adams Women: Abigail & Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters

Abstract: "Nagel recaptures the thought and acts of these privileged women as they suffered and supported a great American dynasty."

National Institutes of Health. (unknown). Women in Science.

Abstract: "This brochure provides examples of women in science at the National Institutes of Health."

Riegel, R. (1963). American Feminists.

Abstract: "A new evaluation of the American feminist movement emerges from this biographical assessment of its leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Carrie Chapman Catt, among others."

Sanders, M. K. (1973). Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her Time.

Abstract: "As a foreign correspondent in the '20s, Dorothy Thompson was at the center of a brilliant, glamorous group of correspondents in Vienna, Berlin, Moscow, Budapest, and London. In the '30s she became an international celebrity and a respected columnist and radio commentator."

Showalter, E. (1978). These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties.

Abstract: "In 1926-27, The Nation published these seventeen anonymous essays by 'women active in professional and public life.'"

Simon, K. (1986). A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence.

Abstract: "...Kate Simon's honest, moving, and vivid portrayal of her coming of age in the Depression-ridden but vital New York of the 1920s."

Taylor, D. (1971). Generations of Denial: 75 Short Biographies of Women in History.

Abstract: Short biographies of women, including the stories of: suffragists, feminists, political leaders, military leaders, queens, martyrs, heroines, lesbians, witches, reformers, revolutionaries, educators, scientists, inventors, writers, journalists, printers, entertainers, explorers, and artists.

Thane, E. (1954). Washington's Lady: The Life of Martha Washington.

Abstract: "The product of imaginative research and a well-seasoned knowledge of Colonial and Federal America, Washington's Lady abounds in revealing anecdotes of both the Washingtons."