Activist, Educator (28-Feb-1797 — 5-Mar-1849)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Evelyn I. Banning. Mary Lyon of Putnam's Hill: A Biography. Vanguard Press. 1965. 189pp.

Fidelia Fiske. Recollections of Mary Lyon: With Selections from Her Instructions to the Pupils in Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. Boston: American Tract Society. 1866. 333pp.

Beth Bradford Gilchrist. The Life of Mary Lyon. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1910. 462pp.

Elizabeth Alden Green. Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates. University Press of New England. 1979. 406pp.

Edward Hitchcock. The Power of Christian Benevolence: Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon. Hopkins, Bridgman and Co.. 1852. 486pp.

Marion Lansing (editor). Mary Lyon: Through Her Letters. Read Books. 2007. 348pp.

Amanda Porterfield. Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. Oxford University Press. 1997. 179pp.

William Makepeace Thayer. The True Woman: Elements of Character Drawn from the Life of Mary Lyon and Others. Hodder & Stoughton. 1893. 330pp.

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5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.716)

6. Webster's American Biographies (p.658)

7. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.461)

8. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.597)

9. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.119)

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