Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

by Emilee Hines

Overview

How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.

Discover fifteen extraordinary women from Virginia's past, including Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, travel writer Anne Newport Royall, pioneering banker Maggie Lena Walker, Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew, and poet Anne Spencer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493016068
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/15/2015
Series:	Remarkable American Women
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

A native Virginian and currently a freelance writer, Emilee Hines taught history, English, and creative writing for thirty-two years. A historian by training, she is a graduate of Lynchburg College and has a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of seven volumes of Old Virginia Houses, over 250 published articles and short stories, and Globe Pequot's It Happened in Virginia and Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, DC History. She lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Pocahontas
America's Princess

Martha Washington
The First First Lady

Elizabeth Henry Russell
Madame Russell

Dolley Madison
America's Hostess

Anne Newport Royall
Travel Writer

Priscilla Cooper Tyler
From Actress to Acting First Lady

Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew
Virginia's Lady Spies

Maggie Lena Walker
Banker and Philanthropist

Edith Bolling Wilson
Acting President

Ellen Glasgow
Best-selling Author

Nancy Langhorne Astor
Member of Parliament

Anne Spencer
Heaven's Virginia

Lucy Randolph Mason
Labor Organizer

Bibliography

Index