More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women - Henderson, Lyndee
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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women profiles the lives of twelve of the Prairie State¿s most important historical figures born before 1900. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women, each in her separate field, helped build the proud history of Americäs twenty-first state.Anna Elizabeth Slough journeyed to Illinois when it was considered part of the untamed ¿Far West¿ and later ran her own hotel in Peoria. Myra Bradwell championed better working conditions and bravely paved the way for labor regulation. Jane Addams, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize,…mehr

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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women profiles the lives of twelve of the Prairie State¿s most important historical figures born before 1900. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women, each in her separate field, helped build the proud history of Americäs twenty-first state.Anna Elizabeth Slough journeyed to Illinois when it was considered part of the untamed ¿Far West¿ and later ran her own hotel in Peoria. Myra Bradwell championed better working conditions and bravely paved the way for labor regulation. Jane Addams, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, spent her entire adult life educating and caring for Chicago¿s poor and downtrodden. Each of these women demonstrated an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this captivating collection of biographies.
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Lyndee Jobe Henderson has been digging up history ever since she was a little girl accompanying her father on archaeological expeditions. The courage of ordinary people living in extraordinary times impressed this Johnstown, Pennsylvania native, who grew up hearing stories about the survivors of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Since relocating to Illinois, Lyndee has researched the Lincolns, the Civil War, the Victorian era, and Illinois prairie life. Lyndee shares her now empty nest in Naperville with husband Larry and Pomeranian dog Kodiak.