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Williams, Selma R.

Demeter's daughters : the women who founded America, 1587-1787 / - 1st ed. - New York : Atheneum, 1976, c1975. - xii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 332-345.

Details the varied activities of colonial women, the extensive legal rights they enjoyed, and the difficulties they faced in a new land. Includes bibliographical sketches of representative women of that period.

ISBN: 0689304943

LCCN: 75013773 /AC

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Biography.--United States
Women--History.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

LC Class. No.: HQ1416 / .W54

Dewey Class. No.: 920.72/0973 920