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Author:

Slack, Charles.

Title:

Hetty : the genius and madness of America's first female tycoon / Charles Slack.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

ECCO,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Green, Hetty Howland Robinson,--1835-1916.
Women capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
Millionaires--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index.

Contents:

New Bedford -- Aunt Sylvia -- A test of wills -- Alone in a crowd -- Self-imposed exile -- Pride and pain -- Hetty storms Wall Street -- The view from Brooklyn -- Grooming a protégé -- Thou shalt not pass -- A lady of your age -- Across the river -- If my daughter is happy -- The hat was "Hetty" Green -- I'll outlive all of them! -- High times at Round Hill -- Scattered to the wind.

Summary:

Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able to vote.

ISBN:

9780060542566
006054256X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54670533

LCCN:

2004042055

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

MNPB553 -- Bancroft Public Library (Bancroft)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

VSPC034 -- Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library (Lansing)

FWPE284 -- Manchester Public Library (Manchester)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake) — 332.092