Collective Biographies of WomenAn Annotated Bibliography
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Hale, Sarah Josepha [Buell]. Woman's Record; or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from “The Beginning” till [Until-London ed.] A. D. 1850. Arranged in Four Eras--With Selections from Female Writers of Every Age. New York: Harper, 1852, 1853. London: Sampson, Low, 1853. Hale, Sarah Josepha [Buell]. Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women: From the Creation to A. D. 1854: Arranged in Four Eras, with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age...Illustrated by Two Hundred and Thirty Portraits, Engraved on Wood by Lossing and Barritt. 2d ed., New York: Harper, 1855. Hale, Sarah Josepha [Buell]. Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Creation to A. D. 1868, Arranged in Four Eras. With Selections from Authoresses of Each Era. 3d ed., New York: Harper, 1870; 1872; 1873; 1874. See How To Make It as a Woman, 100-2, 203-7. NOT= encyclopedia. A 900-plus-page book that contains hundreds upon hundreds of entries of varying length on historical women, divided into four historical "eras": the first, from the beginning of history through the birth of Jesus Christ; the second, from the birth of Christ through the year 1500; the third, from 1500 through 1850; and the fourth, of women alive at the time of the book's publication. Also contains 229 portraits of important women. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title. |