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What America Owes to Women

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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.
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What America Owes to Women

Chapters

Dedication, Preface and Introduction

Some Women in America History: What America owes to Isabella of Castile and to Madame LaFayette by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Columbus at Santa Fe by Virginia P. Townsend

The Women of Plymouth Colony by Jane G. Austin

The Lady Arbella by Lucy Larcom

Puritan Womanhood: A Power in America by Linda T. Guilford

The Women of the American Revolution by Mrs. Elroy M. Avery

Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant

Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 1

Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 2

Women in the Home by the Editor and Wives and Daughters in the Home by Agnes Bailey Ormsbee

Domestic Science in American Homes, Editorial

Clergymen's Wives by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher

The Wives of Army Officers by Jessie Benton Fremont

The American Salon, Editorial

Social Leaders of Washington by Leonora B. Halsted

The Southern Woman, Past and Present by Mrs. Frank Leslie

Physical Culture of American Women by Annie Jenness Miller

The American Girl, Past and Present, Editorial

Every-day Women by Lucy M. Spelman and Farmers' Wives and Daughters by Jennie E. Hooker

Women In Literature: Women in Literature and Poetry, Editorial

Women Fiction Writers of America by Ellen Olney Kirk

Women Journalists in America by Susan E. Dickinson

Women in Education and Science, Editorial

Women as Teachers by Eliza Hardy Lord

Massachusetts Normal Schools by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells

Wellesley College Towards Liberal Education by Anne Eugenia Morgan

An American Queen by Gail Hamilton

Sketch of Maria Mitchell by Frances Fisher Wood

Women's Work at the Harvard Observatory by Helen Leah Reed

Women in Philanthropy, Church Work, Home, Missions and Charities: Woman's Progress by Frances E. Willard

The Work of Women During the War by Mary A. Livermore

Women's Work for Indians by Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton

The Woman's Club Movement by J. C. Croley (Jennie June)

The Influence of Women in American Politics by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster

Woman's Work in the Church, Editorial

Working Girls' Clubs by Grace H. Dodge

Woman's National Christian Temperance Union, Editorial and Young Women's Christian Temperance Work by Frances J. Barnes

Hospitals, Mission Schools, and Other Charities, Editorial and Sketch of Dorothea Lyned Dix by L. Elizabeth Price

Two Women Whome I Have Known by Mrs. Charles Henrotin

Women in Professions, Business and Trade: Women in Medicine by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D.

Women in Law by Ada M. Bittenbender

American Women of the Drama by Lillian Whiting

Women in Business and Trade, Editorial

Queens of the Shop, the Workroom and the Tenement by Katharine Pearson Woods

Women Clerks in New York by The Marquise Clara Lanza

Women in Art and Music, Editorial

Women Artists by Maude Haywood

Women Art Patrons by Helen Evertson Smith

Exposition Notes: Address at the Dedicatory Ceremonies, October 21, 1892 by Mrs. Potter Palmer and Ode:- "Columbia's Banner" by Edna Dean Proctor

The Board of Lady Managers and The Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary

The Woman's Building, The Children's Building and Exhibits by Women