Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen Women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Readers interested in American literature, women\'s lives, and Mackinac Island\'s storied history will find this book a fascinating read..
There were also community builders who founded key institutions and midwifed generations of island children: Rosa Truscott Webb, Daisy Peck Blodgett, and Stella King.
These writers included Juliette Magill Kinzie, Anna Brownell Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and Constance Fenimore Woolson.
Among the Women of Mackinac, there were also those who sang the island\'s praises and recorded the lively relationships of the English, French, and American inhabitants.
Elizabeth Bertrand Mitchell, Madeline Marcot LaFramboise, Therese Marcot Schindler, Elizabeth Therese Baird, Agatha Biddle, and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft were Anishinaabe fur traders, farmers, memoirists, and poets who established the nineteenth-century island community.
In this collective biography, author and Mackinac Island resident Melissa Croghan reveals how central they were to the history and literature of Mackinac.
Their linked visions of family and community define this beautiful island in the western Great Lakes.
Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen Women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
