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What America Owes to Women

Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842 - 1903)

As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman Past and Present; not in the way of boastful assertions, nor by pleading for her rights which have already been awarded her; but by statements of her achievements in the lines of literature, philanthropy, church work, education, science, industry, medicine, business, art, music, invention, home life, domestic science, etc., that hereby the subtle, yet powerful influence of woman in the development of this great country may be manifested and strengthened. Thus there shall be constructed a fitting memorial of the American Woman of the Past, and inspiring model for the American Woman of the Future.
We have endeavored to make this book a valuable Souvenir of the Columbian Exposition.
These portraits have been sketched by many pens, for no one writer could have accomplished the object desired.
- Summary by Excerpt from Preface

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Modern (19th C)

Language: English

Keyword(s): literature (1956), science (222), music (130), education (98), women (90), art (90), medicine (56), industry (19), philanthropy (9), home life (4)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Dedication, Preface and Introduction	Christine Rottger	00:09:57
Play 01	Some Women in America History: What America owes to Isabella of Castile and to Madame LaFayette by Lydia Hoyt Farmer	Abhijith Asok	00:29:08
Play 02	Columbus at Santa Fe by Virginia P. Townsend	Abhijith Asok	00:11:44
Play 03	The Women of Plymouth Colony by Jane G. Austin	Abhijith Asok	00:08:20
Play 04	The Lady Arbella by Lucy Larcom	David Curtiss	00:04:00
Play 05	Puritan Womanhood: A Power in America by Linda T. Guilford	Missy Morgan	00:16:40
Play 06	The Women of the American Revolution by Mrs. Elroy M. Avery	cyndajm	00:18:09
Play 07	Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant	CaptCalf	00:04:20
Play 08	Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 1	cyndajm	00:54:17
Play 09	Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 2	cyndajm	00:43:36
Play 10	Women in the Home by the Editor and Wives and Daughters in the Home by Agnes Bailey Ormsbee	cyndajm	00:20:05
Play 11	Domestic Science in American Homes, Editorial	Cajucom	00:24:44
Play 12	Clergymen's Wives by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher	Stacey Malcolm	00:03:27
Play 13	The Wives of Army Officers by Jessie Benton Fremont	Penny Carrington	00:09:32
Play 14	The American Salon, Editorial	Robert H. Cherny	00:23:21
Play 15	Social Leaders of Washington by Leonora B. Halsted	Robert H. Cherny	00:29:56
Play 16	The Southern Woman, Past and Present by Mrs. Frank Leslie	Lyra Scout	00:10:11
Play 17	Physical Culture of American Women by Annie Jenness Miller	Penny Carrington	00:06:51
Play 18	The American Girl, Past and Present, Editorial	cyndajm	00:47:31
Play 19	Every-day Women by Lucy M. Spelman and Farmers' Wives and Daughters by Jennie E. Hooker	Penny Carrington	00:14:29
Play 20	Women In Literature: Women in Literature and Poetry, Editorial	AliceStein	00:32:52
Play 21	Women Fiction Writers of America by Ellen Olney Kirk	AliceStein	00:31:25
Play 22	Women Journalists in America by Susan E. Dickinson	Robert H. Cherny	00:18:58
Play 23	Women in Education and Science, Editorial	Hazel Moon	00:19:10
Play 24	Women as Teachers by Eliza Hardy Lord	Robert H. Cherny	00:28:26
Play 25	Massachusetts Normal Schools by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells	Robert H. Cherny	00:20:36
Play 26	Wellesley College Towards Liberal Education by Anne Eugenia Morgan	Robert H. Cherny	00:21:08
Play 27	An American Queen by Gail Hamilton	Robert H. Cherny	00:50:26
Play 28	Sketch of Maria Mitchell by Frances Fisher Wood	BettyB	00:18:07
Play 29	Women's Work at the Harvard Observatory by Helen Leah Reed	Robert H. Cherny	00:26:17
Play 30	Women in Philanthropy, Church Work, Home, Missions and Charities: Woman's Progress by Frances E. Willard	BettyB	00:16:49
Play 31	The Work of Women During the War by Mary A. Livermore	Will	00:10:26
Play 32	Women's Work for Indians by Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton	cyndajm	00:27:49
Play 33	The Woman's Club Movement by J. C. Croley (Jennie June)	Robert H. Cherny	00:34:29
Play 34	The Influence of Women in American Politics by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster	Will	00:16:22
Play 35	Woman's Work in the Church, Editorial	Christine Rottger	00:47:32
Play 36	Working Girls' Clubs by Grace H. Dodge	Robert H. Cherny	00:17:13
Play 37	Woman's National Christian Temperance Union, Editorial and Young Women's Christian Temperance Work by Frances J. Barnes	BettyB	00:16:54
Play 38	Hospitals, Mission Schools, and Other Charities, Editorial and Sketch of Dorothea Lyned Dix by L. Elizabeth Price	Harriet	00:24:14
Play 39	Two Women Whome I Have Known by Mrs. Charles Henrotin	cyndajm	00:18:06
Play 40	Women in Professions, Business and Trade: Women in Medicine by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D.	BettyB	00:19:17
Play 41	Women in Law by Ada M. Bittenbender	Christine Rottger	00:52:48
Play 42	American Women of the Drama by Lillian Whiting	AliceStein	00:20:05
Play 43	Women in Business and Trade, Editorial	Penny Carrington	00:51:25
Play 44	Queens of the Shop, the Workroom and the Tenement by Katharine Pearson Woods	Robert H. Cherny	00:25:11
Play 45	Women Clerks in New York by The Marquise Clara Lanza	Robert H. Cherny	00:22:31
Play 46	Women in Art and Music, Editorial	emmaweigham	00:11:51
Play 47	Women Artists by Maude Haywood	kathasears	00:08:38
Play 48	Women Art Patrons by Helen Evertson Smith	Robert H. Cherny	00:22:42
Play 49	Exposition Notes: Address at the Dedicatory Ceremonies, October 21, 1892 by Mrs. Potter Palmer and Ode:- "Columbia's Banner" by Edna Dean Proctor	BettyB	00:17:17
Play 50	The Board of Lady Managers and The Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary	BettyB	00:11:51
Play 51	The Woman's Building, The Children's Building and Exhibits by Women	BettyB	00:24:06

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