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Women in Long Island's Past
A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The First Long Islanders
- Chapter 2. Colonial Long Island
- Chapter 3. The Revolutionary Schism and the Occupation of Long Island
- Chapter 4. Expanding the Domestic Sphere in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 5. Long Island’s First Ladies
- Chapter 6. Novelists, Poets and Other Writers
- Chapter 7. Women and the Arts
- Chapter 8. Philanthropists and Humanitarians
- Chapter 9. Earning a Living: Entrepreneurs, Entertainers and Scientists
- Chapter 10. Pioneering Pilots: Daring and Intrepid Airwomen
- Chapter 11. Achieving Votes for Women
- Chapter 12. Civic and Political Activists
- Chapter 13. Years of Change, 1930–1980
- Chapter 14. Historians and Preservationists
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- About the Author