Fifteen notable women from Pennsylvania are brought to life through this series of easy-to-read biographies and archival photo portraits. Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is profiled, as well as Ann Preston, a doctor who was influential in the founding of Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. You'll also meet war heroines, social reformers and inventors from the earliest settlements of the Keystone state through the early 1900s. Kate Hertzog is a writer and editor, and the author of Insiders' Guide to Gettysburg, She lives in Mechanicsburg.