More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women features 12 exceptional women born prior to 1900. Portraits include Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across America; Hannah Silverman, a labor activist during the Paterson silk strikes who fought fearlessly for better working conditions; Abigail Goodwin, a gentle Quaker who bravely conducted many slaves to freedom from her home on the Underground Railroad; and Clara Maass, a nurse who gave her life to stop the scourge of yellow fever. Each woman in this book made lasting contributions to society and embodied a fierce determination and independent spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then.

Introduction --
Mary Ludwig Hays Macauley: Hero of the Battle of Monmouth --
Sylvia Dubois: Ambitious to be free --
Abigail Goodwin: Champion of the underground railroad --
Lilly Martin Spencer: Virtuoso painter of the familiar --
Antoinette Brown Blackwell: America's first ordained woman minister --
Mary Mapes Dodge: Creator of Hans Brinker and St. Nicholas --
Clara Maass: Yellow fever nurse --
Jessie Redmon Fauset: Midwife of the Harlem Renaissance --
Alice Stokes Paul: Mother of the equal rights amendment --
Alice Huyler Ramsey: Pioneer endurance driver --
Maria Jeritza: Metropolitan opera star --
Hannah Silverman: Hero of the 1913 Paterson silk strike