Remarkable Women of Hartford

by Cynthia Wolfe Boynton

Book Overview

Connecticut's capital has served as home to some of the most influential women in the state's history, but few know the stories of their lives and accomplishments. Nineteenth-century abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a catalyst for the Civil War. Ella Grasso was the first woman elected governor in the United States. Hannah Bunce Watson, publisher of the "Hartford Courant," never skipped a single edition during the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626193207
• ISBN13: 9781626193208
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"