Adventurous Spirit: A Story about Ellen Swallow Richards

by Ethlie Ann Vare

Book Overview

A biography of Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the American home economics movement, and first professional woman chemist. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876147333
• ISBN13: 9780876147337
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grade 3

Customer Reviews

It is good to have another book out on this energetic woman.

To be truthful I haven't read Adventurous Spirit. However, I have studied the life and work of Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards for many years. She was an amazing character and in many ways worthy of continued attention. Richards ventured into chemistry, then unexplored territory for women, and found there opportunity for looking at many domestic processes in new ways in addition to the work valued within chemistry itself. More important she created an opening for other women to enter tertiary education. Even without reading it I can appreciated the existence of another telling of Ellen's story.