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"Describes how the fight both to pass and later to repeal Prohibition was driven by women, as exemplified by two women in particular [Mabel Willebrandt and Pauline Sabin]"--Amazon.

A biography of American composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, discussing her early talent as a pianist and her turn to composition, and offering a critical overview of her music in the contexts of her time and of her contemporaries.

Chronicles the life of Victorian era archaeologist Katherine Routledge, concentrating on the Mana Expedition, the first excavation of Easter Island's famous statues, which she and her husband led in 1913-15.