The passion of Abby Hemenway

by Deborah Pickman Clifford

2001 350 pages eng

""Not a suitable work for a woman". That is what Abby Hemenway was told by male historians skeptical of her ability to compile the history of every town in the state of Vermont. She proved them wrong.". "Abby Maria Hemenway's life and work offer a unique portrait of a 19th-century literary woman. H…