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About the Author
Mary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, including Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature (1995), Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature (2006), and Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad (2007). She is also the author of The Encyclopedia of World Ballet (2015), The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance (2016), and American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia (2017), all published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Reviews
Snodgrass here "surveys the crafts and talents of a variety of creators and originators occupying the American wilderness." These women, whose courage, fortitude, and ingenuity comprise the stuff of legends, were also accomplished practitioners in a number of creative pursuits. They were basket makers, potters, and quilters but also equestrians, sharpshooters, and taxidermists, not to mention botanists, banjoists, and herbalists. Snodgrass also identifies biographers, journal keepers, letter writers, memoirists, poets, and pamphleteers as well as actors, circus performers, dancers, guitarists, magicians, and mimes. A series of appendixes facilitates access to accounts of individual women, whose names are listed by art, state, and ethnicity. Here, too, are a chronology of key events in American history and a glossary of terms. The bibliography is extensive and features primary as well as secondary sources. Period illustrations and contemporary photographs punctuate the text of a fascinating work that helps fill the gaps that still exist in the history of American art and culture. A must for American-art and women's-studies collections. * Booklist *
Book Information
ISBN 9781538109755
Author Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Format Hardback
Page Count 372
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 839g
Dimensions(mm) 262mm * 184mm * 26mm