More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women

Deborah Pickman Clifford has lived in Vermont since 1966. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she has published three biographies of nineteenth-century American women: Julia Ward Howe, Lydia Maria Child, and the Vermont historian, Abby Maria Hemenway. Back in the 1980s she served as the first woman president of both the Vermont Historical Society and the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. She has also written and lectured widely on the history of Vermont women. Most recently, she and her husband, Nicholas, are the joint authors of The Troubled Roar of the Waters: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931, published by the University Press of New England in 2007. Residents of New Haven, a small town near Middlebury, the Cliffords have four daughters and six grandchildren.

• Introduction Lucy Terry Prince, 1730-1821, Poet and Pioneer Ann Story, 1741-1817, Pioneer and Patriot Emma Willard, 1787-1870, Educating Women for the Republic Clarina Howard Nichols, 1810-1885, A Womanly Reformer Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, 1825-1913, A Vermont Poet Laureate Abby Maria Hemenway, 1825-1913, The Woman Who Saved Vermont’s History Rachael Robinson Elmer, 1878-1919, Independent Artist Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, Novelist and Crusader Electra Havemeyer Webb, 1888-1967, Born to Collect Helen Hartness Flanders, 1890-1972, Green Mountain Ballad Collector Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 1899-1976, Vermont’s Own Daughter Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, Raising Demons in the Green Mountains Selected ReferencesAbout the Author