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Review:
Lost is a little book with a big heart.
It grew out of the premise that we're doing children a disservice if we forget to teach them basic values...like honor...faith... and putting home and family first. Kids need to know some things don't change.
But, in addition, today's girls more than ever need an education and a trade. Not just because they must be prepared to support themselves.
But because every girl, like every child, acquires self-esteem through finding something she's good at and then working on that talent until she's so good she can make a contribution.
It's called having a dream.
Many children don't have a dream. They wander about in apathy or get into trouble because they don't know who they are or where they're going.
Or they lack role models that serve as recipes for positive thinking...the kind of thinking that would help them through disappointments and failures. There's a void in their lives through which their energy slips away.
Lost Heroines tries to fill that void by providing some needed role models. It helps girls find their dream.
It does this by presenting the stories of 36 women living and dead who discovered their gift and applied themselves until they made a difference in their own and others' lives.
These 36 women represent 30 separate fields of endeavor. Only the rare reader will be unable to find at least one figure to identify with.
So that adults too will enjoy Lost, the author tried to build into each essay a brisk style, thoughtful details, and colorful quotes and incidents. Wherever possible, she lets the women speak for themselves.
Who are these 36 heroines? They include Lozen, the Apache psychic- warrior whose identity was kept secret for nearly 100 years out of fear of misunderstanding by white society.
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, one of her century's top handful of artists, who somehow got left out of 20th century art appreciation books.
Gertrude (Gertie) Bell, England's renaissance woman and female Lawrence of Arabia.
Julie Krone, the record-breaking, very- much-alive racing jockey who loves horses even more than winning.
And 32 more fascinating figures from world and American history.
A good read for ages 12 through 80. A fine gift even for those daughters, granddaughters, students and teachers who know where they're going. And a great donation to your public library, school, YWCA or Girls' Club.
You won't find Joan of Arc here. Or Florence Nightingale, for that matter.
You will find: Lozen, the apache woman- warrior. Boudicca, the rebel queen who gave Rome one of its worst defeats ever. Jessie Redmon Faucet, the mother of Black literature. Aphra Behn, possibly the real first English novelist. 32 other female contributors to world and American culture, all more or less ignored by the textbooks.
WHERE? In Lost Heroines: Little-Known Women Who Changed Their World, a fascinating new paperback from Uintah Springs Press.
Evelyn S., artist & Homemaker:
"We bought Lost
Heroines as a gift. We ended up using it to help our
daughter write a report. But in my opinion the best reason to
get it is for the great stories about some remarkable ladies."
Marjorie B. school librarian:
"Lost Heroines is almost
unique among collective biographies because it crosses 30
different disciplines. Teachers of all subjects will find it a
valuable source for putting motivations into their lessons.
Students like it because they can read a chapter in one
sitting."
