The book's primary objective is to shed light on Eddy and her life, but readers will enjoy getting to know the authors as well- interesting and lively figures in their own right.

    Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.