About the Author:
The late Louis Baldwin worked as a technical writer for a scientific and engineering laboratory for twenty years before retiring to freelance writing. The author of several books, he lived in San Diego, California.
From Library Journal:
Similar to the Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography (Continuum, 1989), the Larousse Dictionary of Women is the more substantive of the two works considered here. International in scope, it contains about 3000 biographical sketches of notable women from ancient times to the present. The sketches are two or three paragraphs long and offer quotations, a chronology, and sometimes photographs. About half of these sketches have been gleaned by Larousse staffer Parry from previous Larousse dictionaries, while the remainder are new. Baldwin (Triumph Over the Odds: Inspirational Success Stories, Carol Pub., 1994) has a more limited goal in presenting women who have excelled in traditionally male fields, i.e., law, science, sports, journalism, politics, and business. Despite the title, nearly all of the women profiled are from the 20th century. These profiles are about two pages in length and informal, almost chatty, in tone. Since 106 women are profiled, inevitably there are omissions, e.g., Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in America. Nearly half of Baldwin's subjects are not in the Larousse work. Although Baldwin includes a short list of sources, neither book offers any bibliographic references on individuals. The Larousse work could be a companion to the Continuum work in a public or academic reference collection. Baldwin's book is a marginal purchase for reference collections but may be appropriate for popular circulating collections.?Patricia A. Beaber, Coll. of New Jersey, Trenton
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