A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

by Helen L. Laird

Overview

A Mind of Her Own:  Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888-1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299214500
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/20/2006
Series:	Wisconsin Land and Life
Pages:	526
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Helen Laird is author of Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artists of the American West. She lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and serves on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Board of Curators.

Editorial Reviews

This biography of my grandmother interweaves a woman's personal story with the history of her time. I found it to be a deeply moving, well researched, suspenseful odyssey.”—Jessica Doyle

“A Mind of Her Own is first and foremost the highly insightful biography of a remarkable woman who was an astute participant/observer in many of the most significant events and developments of her time over nearly nine decades. It is the saga of one of Wisconsin’s most important and influential families over three generations.”—John Buenker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin–Parkside

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