Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women heroes of the American Revolution

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1001808415

Responsibility statement

Susan Casey

Series statement

Women of action

Sub title

20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue

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

Table Of Contents

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

juvenile

Classification