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Women heroes of the American Revolution : 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue / Susan Casey.

Summary:

"Susan Casey gives 20 remarkable girls and women the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of biographical profiles. These women took action in many ways: as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Women Heroes of the American Revolution brings a fresh new perspective to their stories resulting from interviews with historians and with descendants of participants of the Revolution and features ample excerpts from primary source documents. Also included are contextualizing sidebars, images, source notes, and a bibliography."--Publisher information.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781613745830
  • ISBN: 1613745834
  • ISBN: 9781613738313
  • Physical Description: 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (211-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Resisters, supporters, and rescuers : Penelope Barker: steeping the brew ; Phillis Wheatley: the slave who proclaimed a revolution ; Mary Katherine Goddard: a patriotic publisher ; Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson: mother to the end ; Esther Reed and Sarah Franklin Bache: supporters of the troops ; Elizabeth Burgin: the rescuer who became a fugitive -- Spies : Lydia Darragh: the listener who alerted the general ; Anna Smith Strong: petticoats and handkerchiefs ; Dicey Langston: a whig in a land of tories -- Saboteurrs : Prudence Wright: leader of the pitchfork brigade ; Sybil Ludington: on Star under the stars ; Mary Lindley Murray: wine, cake, and a getaway ; Grace and Rachel Martin: masquerading hostesses -- Soldiers and defenders of the home front : Elizabeth "Betty" Zane: fleet-footed girl to the rescue ; Deborah Sampson Gannett: undercover soldier ; Rebecca Motte: a straight-arrow heroine ; Martha Bratton: "It was I who did it." -- Legendary ladies : Molly Pitcher: "Possible Mollies" Mary Ludwig Hayes and Margaret Cochran Corbin ; Mammy Kate: unlikely rescuer ; Nancy Hart: the war woman.
Target Audience Note:
1300L Lexile.
1300L Lexile
Subject:
Women > Biography.
Women > United States > History > 18th century.
Women.
Womyn.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Participation, Female.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Women.
Genre:
Biographies.
Young adult literature.

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