They Dared to Roar.

They Dared to Roar. They Dared To Roar Kathy Neill Herran Warren Publishing Inc. 17039 Kenton Drive, Suite 101-B, Cornelius, NC 28031 9781886057623, $29.95, www.warrenpublishing.net "They Dared To Roar: Women Who Made A Difference in the1800's" contains 9 mini-biographies of 9 courageous, talented,and unusual American women who were early social and cultural reformers.Illuminated with black and white portrait photographs of their subjects,eight chapters cover the lives and contributions of Sarah and AngelinaGrimke, early Southern abolitionists and women's movement leaders,Sarah Childress Polk, quiet wife, advisor, and secretary to pre-CivilWar President James K. Polk, famed Abolitionist author Harriet BeecherStowe, women's movement initiator and leader Susan B. Anthony,Clara Barton, Civil War nurse ad founder of the American Red Cross,architect and inventor Harriet Morrison Irwin, Anne Morrison Jackson,compassionate Civil War humanitarian and wife of General StonewallJackson, and finally, Sarah E. Goode, a pioneer compact furnituredesigner who began life as a slave on a Southern plantation. Eachchapter describes details of the early life of the subject plus compactoutlines of the major contributions in the subject's later life."They Dared To Roar" lists 20 sources in its bibliography,bringing life and intimate detail to dry historical documents andletters. A valuable contribution to Feminist movement history,"They Dared To Roar" shines a spotlight on sometimes obscureor retiring subjects who made courageous contributions to the advance ofReform and social awareness in pre and post-Civil War America.