More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women

by E. Lynne Wright

Overview

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Sunshine State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762762521
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/02/2010
Series:	More than Petticoats Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

E. Lynne Wright is the author of It Happened in Florida and More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women. Her short stories, nonfiction articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, Woman's Day, and many anthologies and literary magazines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction ix

Florida's Pocahontas Malee Francis 1

Diamonds and Cattle Ranches Bertha Honor? Palmer 9

Mother of Miami Julia Tuttle 19

Daughter of Slaves, Adviser to Presidents Mary McLeod Bemune 29

White Sister of the Seminoles Harriet Bedell 40

Angel of Mercy Eartha M. M. White 50

Doc Anner Dr. Anna Darrow 60

Florida's First Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen 69

Mother of Miami Beach Rose Sayetta Weiss 80

Mother of the Everglades Marjory Stoneman Douglas 91

A Genius of the South Zora Neale Hurston 101

Lawyer, Journalist, Feminist Helen Hunt West 110

Pulitzer Prize Winner at Cross Creek Magorie Kinnan Rawlings 120

Flying High Jacqueline Cochran 130

Sweetheart of World War II Frances Langford 136

Bibliography 143

Index 150