Women in the life of Southern California /

An anthology compiled from Southern California quarterly.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nunis, Doyce B. (Doyce Blackman), 1924-2011 (Editor), Watts, Jennifer A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Historical Society of Southern California, 1996.
Edition:[Special edition].
Series:Southern California anthologies ; 4th.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Gente de razón marriage patterns in Spanish and Mexican California : a case study of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Hispano-Mexican child-rearing practices in pre-American Santa Barbara / Gloria E. Miranda
  • A California girlhood : reminiscences of Ascension Sepulveda y Avila / Sister Mary Joanne Wittenburg
  • Women in California in the early 1850s / Christiane Fischer
  • After slavery : Caroline Severance in Los Angeles / Joan M. Jensen
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin : a woman of letters / Henry James Forman
  • Helen Hunt Jackson : official agent to the California Mission Indians / Valerie Sherer Mathes
  • Mary Austin : Kern County days, 1888-1892 / Donald P. Ringler
  • Margaret Collier Graham : first lady of the foothills / Jane Apostol
  • Nellie Suydam of Glendora : diary of an ordinary women / Hilda Bohem
  • Helena Modjeska and the Francisco Torres affair, summer 1892 / Ellen K. Lee
  • "Apostle of the Cacti" : the society matron as environmental activist / Conner Sorensen
  • Forgotten woman of the Arroyo : Olive Percival / Linda Popp Di Biase
  • Why women should not have the vote : anti-suffrage views in the southland in 1911 / Jane Apostol
  • The Friday Morning Club : a Los Angeles legacy / Thelma Lee Hubbell and Gloria Ricci Lothrop
  • Madame Schumann-Heink : San Diego's diva / Richard W. Amero
  • Imagine the unimaginable : Helen Gahagan Douglas, women, and the bomb / Colleen M. O'Connor
  • Strength made stronger : the role of women in southern California philanthropy / Gloria Ricci Lothrop.