E. F. Ellet

This modern, annotated adaptation of the original three-volume edition of Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Ellet restores, in a single volume, a unique compilation of the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolutionary War. A best-seller in the 1850s, Ellet's work is here carefully edited for today's readers by a distinguished Revolutionary War historian. It contains a new introduction and many explanatory footnotes. A new organization arranges these biographies from north to south by colony, underlining the vast differences in class and culture among the various states.

History of women's artistic accomplishments dating from the ancient Greeks to the mid-nineteenth century.

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet was a poet and writer who had published a popular 3-volume history called The Women of the American Revolution when she decided in 1852 to take a trip west to Detroit and Milwaukee, leaving open the option of extending it. The journey turned out to be much more extensive than that. Some of the place names mentioned in the Table of Contents are: Lake Erie, Eastern Michigan, Ann Arbor, Leoni, The Kalamazoo, Lake Michigan, Chicago, the Fox River, the Rock River, the Lead Region, Galena, Iowa, Dubuque, Prairie du Chien, Fort Crawford, Point Douglas, St. Paul, Crow River, Minnesota River, Montrose, Davenport, Rock Island, Missouri River, St. Louis, Illinois River, Peoria, La Salle, Mackinaw, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior, Grandes Sables, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.

“In this interesting volume, we have 59 extended biographical sketches of wives and mothers who ventured into the western wilds, and bore their part in the struggles and labors of the early pioneers. Most of the biographies were prepared from private records, and are authentic in every respect; none had appeared previous to their publication in this work.” - Peter G. Thomson, A Bibliography of the State of Ohio (1880)