Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today.

Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, "The Mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who explored Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Native-American basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her tribe, the Penobscots.
Each of these women demonstrated courage, compassion, and an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.
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Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History
Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today.

Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, "The Mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who explored Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Native-American basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her tribe, the Penobscots.
Each of these women demonstrated courage, compassion, and an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.
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Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

by Kate Kennedy
Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

Maine's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

by Kate Kennedy

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Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Through their passions for art, exploration, literature, politics, music, and nature, these women made contributions to society that still resonate today.

Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, "The Mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who explored Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Native-American basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her tribe, the Penobscots.
Each of these women demonstrated courage, compassion, and an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493023233
Publisher: Down East Books
Publication date: 05/01/2016
Series: Remarkable American Women
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 172
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Kate Kennedy was the director of the Southern Maine Writing Project at the University of Southern Maine from 2006-2012. Her novel, End Over End, was published in 2001, and her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in various small magazines. She and her husband live in Cape Elizabeth, enjoying three generations of family within a 65-mile span.

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

Tante Blanche: The Mother of Madawaska Marguerite-Blanche Thibodeau Cyr 1

Botanic Artist in the Garden of Maine Kate Furbish 10

Lighthouse Keeper Abbie Burgess Grant 19

Temperance Activist and Social Reformer Lillian M.N. Stevens 29

Writer from the Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 40

Sprtsworman and Journalist of the Maine Woods Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby 50

The Yankee Diva Lillian "La Nordica" Norton 60

Bibliography 167

Index 173

Acknowledgments 178

About the Author 180

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