Aunt Clara Brown

Aunt Clara Brown
Author: Linda Lowery
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 1575054167

A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.

Clara Barton, Professional Angel

Clara Barton, Professional Angel
Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2011-06-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 081220090X

Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman. Based on the papers Clara Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the first one to draw on these recorded thoughts. Besides her own voluminous correspondence, it reflects the letters and reminiscences of lovers, a grandniece who probed her aunt's venerable facade, and doctors who treated her nervous disorders. She emerges as a vividly human figure. Continually struggling to cope with her insecure family background and a society that offered much less than she had to give, she chose achievement as the vehicle for gaining the love and recognition that frequently eluded her during her long life. Not always altruistic, her accomplishments were nonetheless extraordinary. On the battlefields of the Civil War, in securing American participation in the International Red Cross, in promoting peacetime disaster relief, and in fighting for women's rights, Clara Barton made an unparalleled contribution to American social progress. Yet the true measure of her life must be made from this perspective: she dared to offend a society whose acceptance she treasured, and she put all of her energy into patching up the lives of those around her when her own was rent and frayed.

One More Valley, One More Hill

One More Valley, One More Hill
Author: Linda Lowery
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: African American women pioneers
ISBN: 9780375910920

Author Linda Lowery chronicles the extraordinary–but little-known–life of black pioneer Aunt Clara Brown. Aunt Clara bought herself out of slavery, crossed the country on foot to reach the frontier, became a wealthy entrepreneur, aided other freed slaves, and eventually tracked down her lost daughter, sold away from Clara 47 years before. An inspiring piece of American history.

History of Colorado's Women for Young People

History of Colorado's Women for Young People
Author: Vivian Sheldon Epstein
Publisher: Vivian Sheldon Epstein
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1997-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781891424007

List of names by achievements: The arts (actor, television, director) -- Anthropologists -- Architects -- Artists (painters, sculptors) -- Banking and business -- Directors and managers -- Education -- Firefighters -- Judicial and legal -- Music -- Political and government -- Publishers, writers, journalists -- Science (medicine) -- Science (geology, engineering) -- Sports -- Volunteer activists.

Aunt Clara Brown

Aunt Clara Brown
Author: Linda Lowery
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822589249

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as "Aunt" Clara Brown.

Eight Cousins

Eight Cousins
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1876
Genre: Aunts
ISBN:

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins. She must choose which aunt to live with and which lifestyle to follow; instead she chooses her educator uncle.

Clara's Kitchen

Clara's Kitchen
Author: Clara Cannucciari
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429963719

YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression. Clara Cannucciari became an internet sensation late in life, making cooking videos until her 96th birthday. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking channel garnered an army of devoted followers. Now, in Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women
Author: Gayle Shirley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762766921

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Treasure State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

Frontier Grit

Frontier Grit
Author: Marianne Monson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781629722276

Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. The author ties the stories of these pioneer women to the experiences of women today with the hope that they will be inspired to live boldly and bravely and to fill their own lives with vision, faith, and fortitude. To live with grit.