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Clad in corsets and long skirts, living and working in intense heat and humidity, the fourteen early Florida women featured in this book established towns, ran businesses, wrote powerful stories, and worked to promote education, conservation, and tolerance. In More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women, you will discover Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida's first congresswoman; Anna Darrow, who worked as a doctor in Florida's remote backcountry; Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author and protector of the Everglades; Zora Neale Hurston, who gave all she had to be able to write; and Julia Tuttle, the 'mother of Miami.' Born before 1900, these fourteen women lived in Florida when it was still an untamed frontier. Read about their exceptional lives in this collection of absorbing biographies. (6 X 9, 192 pages, b&w photos)
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women FROM THE PUBLISHER
Clad in corsets and long skirts, living and working in intense heat and humidity, the fourteen early Florida women featured in this book established towns, ran businesses, wrote powerful stories, and worked to promote education, conservation, and tolerance. In More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women, you will discover Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida's first congresswoman; Anna Darrow, who worked as a doctor in Florida's remote backcountry; Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author and protector of the Everglades; Zora Neale Hurston, who gave all she had to be able to write; and Julia Tuttle, the 'mother of Miami.' Born before 1900, these fourteen women lived in Florida when it was still an untamed frontier. Read about their exceptional lives in this collection of absorbing biographies.
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