"A Volume of Friendship: The Correspondence of Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1904-1953," Journal of Arizona History, Summer 1999

Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt had parallel lives in many ways: both lost fathers at the age of nine, both cared for invalid husbands, both actively participated in public life. Isabella was Arizona's sole member of the US House of Representatives during the New Deal, while Eleanor presided over the White House. Both lobbied FDR for more liberal social policy. Their 50-year correspondence is an unusual chapter in the history of women in national politics, and offers rich vignettes of women's lives in the first half of the twentieth century.

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