Hearts of Fire: Great Women of American Lore and Legend - Hardcover

Battle, Kemp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517703971 ISBN 13: 9780517703977

Publisher: Harmony, 1997

Synopsis

The author of Great American Folklore (more than 160,000 copies sold) returns with a collection of hundreds of fascinating stories and legends that celebrate the inner life and outer dynamism of women that illuminate the role of women in American history. 320 pp. National publicity. 12,500 print.

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Review:

Most Americans can reel off a handful of female national folk heroes from the history books, but the list ends far too soon. In this wonderfully rich compilation, Kemp Battle weaves together folk tales, diaries, letters, memoirs, and stories recording moments in the lives of heroines large and small. Tucked alongside Amelia Earhart and Billie Holiday, there's exasperated Aunt Weed who writes a threatening letter to the rats invading her home and young Kate Shelley who runs through a howling storm to save two trains from a washed-out bridge. More than 100 women raise their voices here, illuminating tiny corners of America at many points in time.

From the Back Cover:

"The value of this text lies in the astonishing variety of experience lived by American women documented here. Battle has made a significant contribution to women's studies with this interesting collection."
        --Publishers Weekly

"Anyone with a daughter--or a granddaughter, niece, or female student--should run out and get a copy of Hearts of Fire. This book is filled with amazing, marvelous, inspiring, and true stories of American heroines."        
--Wichita Eagle
"Battle retells the stories of well-known women with great flair, but it is the unknown, unsung heroines, both noble and freewheeling, who capture the imagination most in this colorful pageant of champions."
--Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0517703971
• ISBN 13: 9780517703977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 437