Life Stories of 100 Famous Women

by Susan E. Edgar

Full of information, Life Stories of 100 Famous Women is a great introduction to new heroes and role models. These easy-to-read biographies help young people explore the extraordinary life stories of remarkable women throughout history - women who stayed true to values such as respect, determination, hard work, and honesty while overcoming obstacles and achieving important goals.

Pictures, time lines, memorable quotations, and maps help bring alive the compassion of humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt, the imagination of entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey, and the courage and discipline of America's first female doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell. Readers of all ages will be inspired by these famous women, who, by standing up for their beliefs, succeeded beyond all expectations.

A library of life's lessons --
Jane Addams --
Madeleine Albright --
Louise May Alcott --
Marian Anderson --
Maya Angelou --
Susan B. Anthony --
Jane Austen --
Lucille Ball --
Clara Barton --
Sarah Bernhardt --
Mary McLeod Bethune --
Shirley Temple Black --
Elizabeth Blackwell --
Nellie Bly --
Margaret Bourke-White --
Charlotte Bronte & Emily Bronte --
Rachel Carson --
Mary Cassatt --
Catherine the Great --
Cleopatra VII --
Hillary Rodham Clinton --
Nadia Comaneci. (Cont.) Marie Curie --
Diana --
Emily Dickinson --
Isadora Duncan --
Amelia Earhart --
Elizabeth I --
Ella Fitzgerald --
Margot Fonteyn --
Dian Fossey --
Anne Frank --
Betty Friedan --
Indira Gandhi --
Judy Garland --
Althea Gibson --
Jane Goodall --
Martha Graham --
Ella Grasso --
Florence Griffith Joyner --
Fannie Lou Hamer --
Dorothy Hamill --
Lillian Hellman --
Audrey Hepburn --
Billie Holiday --
Mae Jemison --
Joan of Arc --
Mother Jones --
Frida Kahlo --
Helen Keller. Billie Jean King --
Mary Leakey --
Annie Liebovitz --
Maya Lin --
Belva Lockwood --
Dolley Madison --
Madonna --
Margaret Mead --
Catherine de Medicis --
Golda Meir --
Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Marilyn Monroe --
Maria Montessori --
Toni Morrison --
Grandma Moses --
Martina Navratilova --
Nefertiti --
Florence Nightingale --
Annie Oakley --
Sandra Day O'Connor --
Rosie O'Donnell --
Georgia O'Keeffe --
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis --
Rosa Parks --
Eva Peron --
Pocahontas --
Beatrix Potter. (Cont.) Jeannette Rankin --
Janet Reno --
Sally Ride --
Eleanor Roosevelt --
Wilma Rudolph --
Sacagawea --
Margaret Sanger --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
Glorie Steinem --
Martha Stewart --
Harriet Beecher Stowe --
Ida M. Tarbell --
Mother Teresa --
Margaret Thatcher --
Sojourner Truth --
Harriet Tubman --
Victoria --
Sarah Breedlove Walker --
Barbara Walters --
Ida B. Wells-Barnett --
Laura Ingalls Wilder --
Oprah Winfrey --
Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Genres: Nonfiction, History

573 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001