Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers

An engaging history of women's rights and the legal profession in the nineteenth century

Long before Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg earned their positions on the Supreme Court, they were preceded in their goal of legal excellence by several intrepid trailblazers. In Rebels at the Bar, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a small group of nineteenth century women who were among the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning in the l...