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4) Helen Keller
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English
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Describes how a woman left blind and deaf from a childhood illness overcame her handicaps to become a noted writer and humanitarian.
7) Clara Barton
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English
Description
Follows the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
8) Emma Lazarus
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English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century American poet best known for the verses inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
10) Gertrude Stein
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English
Description
Traces the life of the American author whose unique writing style and encouragement of other authors had a strong influence on culture, particularly in Paris in the 1920s.
11) Isadora Duncan
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English
Description
A biography of Isadora Duncan, a giant in the history of American dance.
12) Jane Addams
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English
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Jane Addams helped immigrants by founding the first settlement house, Hull House, in Chicago. This is a thorough & well-organized book. It describes her efforts to challenge social conventions -- attending college during a time (the late 1800s) when few women had that opportunity. She later devoted her life to working to help the poor & change the attitudes & treatment of the less fortunate.
15) Mae West
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English
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Traces the life of the stage and screen performer, from her Brooklyn childhood and vaudeville period to success in Hollywood and the final years.
17) Pearl Buck
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English
Description
A biography of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner who devoted much of her life to the welfare of needy children.
18) Susan B. Anthony
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English
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A biography of an early leader in the campaign for women's rights, particularly in getting women the right to vote.
19) Wilma Rudolph
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English
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A biography of the woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
20) Abigail Adams
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English
Description
Chronicles the life and achievements of the wife of the second president of the United States.
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