商品簡介
Concentrating on notable women in North America, Europe and the British Commonwealth in the last two centuries, but also containing entries for women from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and China, this collection represents achievement in a variety of fields, not just philanthropy or other behaviors of the leisure classes. As a result the entries include activists who worked on both sides of the podium, scientists, suffragists, artists, writers, educators and academics, many of whom were not recognized in their own lifetimes. Also included are women with significant, if unheralded political influence, revolutionaries, publicists, and motivators of movements, businesswomen and poets. This version includes women who have come to prominence in the last five years and is the revised edition of The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography , third edition, 1999. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jenny Uglow's latest book is The Lunar Men which won Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. Her biography of William Hogarth was published in September 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. She writes and reviews for, amongst other publications, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent on Sunday.
Maggy Hendry grew up in Scotland and was educated in St Andrews and at the University of Kent. She is a freelance writer working in educational and encyclopedic publishing. She became interested in the lives and struggles of third world women through working in West Africa and travelling in India, and she worked for a time in a London-based information exchange for women worldwide. She is currently writing a novel set in East Africa in the 19th century. She has two grown up children and now lives in Kent.
