Notable Women of Portland

Special AHC Members & Friends Book Talk

The story of Portland, like much of history, has been told with a focus on male leaders. Tracy Prince and Zadie Schaffer offer a reframing of the city’s history by exploring women’s stories from pioneer times through the present and including women in the arts and women in politics.

Many women radically changed the Oregon landscape. These include:

♦ Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette

♦ Pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger

♦ Doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair

♦ Artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White

♦ Suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond and Eva Emery Dye

♦ Lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard

♦ Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee

♦ Politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter

♦ Authors Beverly Cleary, Ursula Le Guin, Jean Auel, Beatrice Morrow Cannady and Frances Fuller Victor

About the Authors

Tracy Prince is Scholar-in-Residence at Portland State University and a member of the Bosco-Milligan Foundation Board of Directors. She is author of Portland’s Goose Hollow and Culture Wars in British Literature and the co-author of Portland’s Slabtown. She and researcher/daughter Zadie Schaffer (now 13 years old) were inspired by fascinating nuggets of Portland history to shine more light on the women who helped shape Oregon.

Copies of Notable Women of Portland will be available for purchase at the program.

Free admission ($5 suggested donation); as seating is limited, pre-registration is recommended.

Image: Cover of Notable Women of Portland, Courtesy of Arcadia Publishing.