Obstinate daughters : the rebels, writers, and renegade women who ignited the American Revolution / Denise Kiernan.
"History has always celebrated the Founding Fathers -- the sly but victorious tactics of Washington, the daring exploits of Lafayette, the grand ideas of Jefferson. Yet we rarely hear of the women who kept the colonies running and liberty alive. Obstinate Daughters finally rewrites the story of America's birth by revealing the courageous, resourceful women whose actions shaped a nation. From the battlefields to the printing press, from the plantations to the pulpit, these women fought, spied, published, preached, farmed, and organized. From the front lines to the home front, from the colonies to the frontier, these unsung heroines turned the tide. In Obstinate Daughters, readers will meet women who armed themselves and took matters into their own hands to defend their town. A Cherokee leader who warned patriot settlements of looming attacks, risking the lives of her own people in the process. A British spy at the center of a plot to assassinate George Washington. Enslaved women who risked their lives while fighting a parallel battle for their own freedom, embodying the very ideals the revolution claimed to uphold. The only woman to have her name on the Declaration of Independence. And many more"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593183434
- ISBN: 0593183436
- Physical Description: x, 419 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dutton, [2026]
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-402) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- How it begins -- A bloody time in Boston -- Freedom's many trails -- Boston un-common -- The dismal and the determined -- War comes to all -- Of loss and loyalty -- Standing in the circle -- Prelude to Independence: The dawn of 1776 -- Manahatta -- A plot is afoot -- Shades of indigo -- Planter. Mother. Patriot. -- Shades of Freedom: July 4, 1776 -- Two weeks (or so) in July -- The hidden city -- Choices, consequences, and an island lost -- Three women, one friend, shifting tides -- In ink. In stone. In metal. -- Of those both missed and mythical -- Melted majesty -- Forged in the valley -- Colonial dames -- Chasing Molly, finding Betsy -- Tides turn south -- Freedom's wake -- Legacy of obstinacy -- Epilogue: July 4 . . . Redux.
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"History has always celebrated the Founding Fathers -- the sly but victorious tactics of Washington, the daring exploits of Lafayette, the grand ideas of Jefferson. Yet we rarely hear of the women who kept the colonies running and liberty alive. Obstinate Daughters finally rewrites the story of America's birth by revealing the courageous, resourceful women whose actions shaped a nation. From the battlefields to the printing press, from the plantations to the pulpit, these women fought, spied, published, preached, farmed, and organized. From the front lines to the home front, from the colonies to the frontier, these unsung heroines turned the tide. In Obstinate Daughters, readers will meet women who armed themselves and took matters into their own hands to defend their town. A Cherokee leader who warned patriot settlements of looming attacks, risking the lives of her own people in the process. A British spy at the center of a plot to assassinate George Washington. Enslaved women who risked their lives while fighting a parallel battle for their own freedom, embodying the very ideals the revolution claimed to uphold. The only woman to have her name on the Declaration of Independence. And many more"--
