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100 American Women Who Shaped American History 2Nd Edition Deborah G Felder Full Chapter
100 American Women Who Shaped American History 2Nd Edition Deborah G Felder Full Chapter
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1. Anne Hutchinson
2. Anne Bradstreet
3. Martha Washington
4. Abigail Adams
5. Betsy Ross
6. Dolley Madison
7. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
8. Rose Fortune
9. Emma Willard
10. Sarah Josepha Hale
11. Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké
12. Margaret Fuller
13. Maria Mitchell
14. Julia Ward Howe
15. Emily Dickinson
16. Belva Ann Lockwood
17. “Stagecoach” Mary Fields
18. Frances Willard
19. Ida Tarbell
20. Anna Julia Cooper
21. Florence Kelley
22. Annie Oakley
23. Juliette Gordon Low
24. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
25. Edith Wharton
26. Florence Bascom
27. Nellie Bly
28. Maggie L. Walker
29. Lyda Conley
30. Emma Goldman
31. Ynes Mexia
32. Florence Rena Sabin
33. Gertrude Stein
34. Laura Cornelius Kellogg
35. Jeanette Rankin
36. Rose Schneiderman
37. Alice Paul
38. Jovita Idár
39. Florence Price
40. Georgia O’Keeffe
41. Alice Ball
42. Mary Pickford
43. Dorothy Thompson
44. Hattie McDaniel
45. Dorothea Lange
46. Septima Poinsette Clark
47. Pura Belpré
48. Margaret Mitchell
49. Ella Baker
50. Anna May Wong
51. Agnes de Mille
52. Oveta Culp Hobby
53. Jacqueline Cochran
54. Katharine Hepburn
55. Mary Golda Ross
56. Virginia Apgar
57. Lucille Ball
58. Chien-Shiung Wu
59. Mamie Phipps Clark
60. Katharine Graham
61. Katherine Johnson
62. Gertrude B. Elion
63. Jane C. Wright
64. Marie Maynard Daly
65. Yuri Kochiyama
66. Mamie Till
67. Eugenie Clark
68. Minnie Spotted Wolf
69. Maggie Gee
70. Coretta Scott King
71. Patsy Mink
72. Althea Gibson
73. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
74. Joan Ganz Cooney
75. Sandra Day O’Connor
76. Barbara Hillary
77. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
78. Audre Lorde
79. Gloria Steinem
80. Barbara Jordan
81. Madeleine Albright
82. Mildred Loving
83. Patricia Bath
84. Aretha Franklin
85. Billie Jean King
86. Dolly Parton
87. Hillary Clinton
88. Sally Ride
89. Helen Zia
90. Olga E. Custodio
91. María Elena Salinas
92. Mae Carol Jemison
93. Maya Lin
94. Sonia Nazario
95. Kamala Harris
96. Tammy Duckworth
97. Jennifer Lopez
98. Sharice Davids
99. Janet Mock
100. Simone Biles
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Introduction
Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in America and the
first significant woman writer in the American colonies.
Born in Northampton, England, she was the first daughter and the
second of five children of Thomas and Dorothy Dudley. Her father
held a prestigious and well-paying position as steward of the earl of
Lincoln’s vast estates, and her mother hailed from a wealthy family.
Anne was educated by private tutors and supplemented her learning
by reading books from the earl’s well-stocked library. She was
brought up in a strict religious household that did not observe the
established Church of England, and instead followed a Protestant
doctrine that was closer to Puritanism.
At the age of sixteen, Anne Dudley was married to Simon
Bradstreet, who succeeded her father as steward. In 1630 Anne,
her husband, and her parents sailed for New England on board one
of Governor John Winthrop’s ships. Because her father and husband
were associated with the Massachusetts Bay Company, the
organization that had established the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Anne enjoyed a position of honor and dignity in Boston. In 1644, the
Bradstreets moved to North Andover, then an area of wilderness
north of Boston.
Anne Bradstreet wrote poems for her own pleasure, and they were
copied for her father and family members to read. In her early
poems, she imitated the style of European writers, but she later
found her own form of expression. At the same time, she was raising
eight children, battling frequent illnesses, and keeping house in the
wilderness.
In 1650, her poems were printed in a collection titled The Tenth
Muse Lately Sprung Up In America. Anne wrote about her new life in
America and her feelings on religion, nature, home, and family. Her
poems provide valuable insights into seventeenth-century Puritan life
and are noteworthy for their authenticity and simple beauty.
Subsequently, her brother-in-law, Reverend John Woodbridge,
obtained a copy of Anne’s early poems without her knowledge or
consent, and had them printed in London to elevate the image of
devout women as mothers and wives.
A second volume of poetry, Several Poems Compiled With Great
Variety of Wit and Learning, was published six years after Anne’s
death. The work included revisions of her early work as well as later
poems that revealed her maturity as a poet. A prose piece,
“Meditations Divine and Moral,” written for her son Simon, was
discovered after her death. Other unpublished writings may have
been destroyed in a fire at her home in 1666.
Anne Bradstreet died in North Andover. Her burial place is not
known, and no portrait of her is known to exist. Among her
distinguished descendants are writer Richard Henry Dana and
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
3. Martha Washington
1731–1802
No. 3. No. 4.
1667. Richd. Sherbourne. 1659 until after 1675. Thomas Povey.
1675. Judge Twisden.
1683. Sir John Markham. 1683. “Jervas Perepont.”
Before Thomas 1708. John Partington.
1708. Broomwhoerwood.
1708– Phineas Cheek. 1715. Mrs. Ann
1732. Partington.
1732– J. Winstanley. 1723. William Thomson.
1735.
1735– Phineas Cheek. From before 1730 Mrs. Anne
1753. until 1732. Thomson.
1755– Wm. Mackworth
1763. Praed.
1763– Dr. Jas. Walker.
1767.
1768– William Hamilton. 1732–1736. Elizabeth
1772. Partington.
1773. Wm. Everard. 1736–1743. [55]Henry Perrin.