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Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" — one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program.
Books were rotated between locations [6] and were chosen based on the preferences of the library patrons. [6] The collection of the libraries were focused on children's books. [3]: 69 Maggie Mae Smith, a supervisor at the Whitley County Pack Horse Library wrote that the children all ran to meet the book women, saying, "Bring me a book to read."
Margaret Marty Mann (October 15, 1904 – July 22, 1980) was an American writer who is considered by some to be the first woman to achieve longterm sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. [1] There were several remarkable women in the early days of AA including but not limited to: Florence R. of New York, Sylvia K. of Chicago, Ethel M. of Akron, Ohio.
The Movement, by Clara Bingham In 1963, an American woman would not open her own credit card, play varsity sports in college, prosecute her rapists, or get a prescription for birth control.
After a tortured and torturously long journey to the big screen, The Woman in the Window -- 20th Century's adaptation of A.J. Finn's best-selling thriller -- instead lands on Netflix, met with ...
Lady Elinor Fettiplace (c.1570 – in or after 1647), compiler of a manuscript book, now known under the title Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, dated 1604; Sabrina Ghayour (born 1976), Iranian-born chef and cookbook writer; Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), pioneering cookbook writer, published The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy in 1747
Debrah Miceli is proud of her new book “The Woman Who Would Be King: The Madusa Story” (ECW Press, 305 pages). Miceli, aka Madusa, aka Alundra Blayze, inspired and succeeded in two male ...
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE (24 June 1912 – 30 December 2002), known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist. [2] During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.