title: Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World
author: Dorothy Auchter Mays
description: Grade 8 UpMays greatly expands the scope of Carol Berkin's <i>First Generations: Women in Colonial America</i> (Farrar, 1996) with this alphabetically arranged encyclopedia. Combining articles on several dozen individual women with both general ("Cooking," "Sport and Leisure") and more specific ("Widowhood," "Islamic Women," "Marriage and Family among Enslaved Women") topical studies, she draws heavily from both primary sources and modern scholarship to present clear overviews of the diversity, as well as the commonalities, of both immigrant and native women's experience between 1607 and the outbreak of the War of 1812. She enhances many narratives with boxed (and sourced) asides, and an occasional dark but usually relevant black-and-white illustration. Along with a documentary appendix, the author closes with an extensive annotated bibliography, plus some Web sites, to back up the bibliographies that close nearly every article. With entries linked by an analytical index, many "see" references, and topical and alphabetic tables of contents, this resource offers large doses of easily accessible, hard-to-find-elsewhere information. Collections of any size serving students of our country's past will find it a popular and worthwhile addition.<i>John Peters, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Ten American Girls From History
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kate Dickinson Sweetser
  
  
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  * [FOREWORD](gihi_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [POCAHONTAS: THE INDIAN GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FOREST](gihi_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [DOROTHY QUINCY: THE GIRL OF COLONIAL DAYS WHO HEARD
  
  
  THE FIRST GUN FIRED FOR INDEPENDENCE
  
  
  * [MOLLY PITCHER: THE BRAVE GUNNER OF THE BATTLE OF
  
  
  MONMOUTH
  
  
  * [ELIZABETH VAN LEW: THE GIRL WHO RISKED ALL THAT
  
  
  SLAVERY MIGHT BE ABOLISHED AND THE UNION PRESERVED
  
  
  * [IDA LEWIS: THE GIRL WHO KEPT LIME ROCK BURNING; A
  
  
  HEROIC LIFE-SAVER
  
  
  * [CLARA BARTON: “THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELDS”](gihi_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [VIRGINIA REED: MIDNIGHT HEROINE OF THE PLAINS IN
  
  
  PIONEER DAYS OF AMERICA
  
  
  * [LOUISA M. ALCOTT: AUTHOR OF “LITTLE WOMEN”](gihi_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [CLARA MORRIS: THE GIRL WHO WON FAME AS AN ACTRESS](gihi_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ANNA DICKINS