ISBN:
9780820342627
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (389 p)
Series Statement:
Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
Series Statement:
Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser. v.12
Parallel Title:
Print version Virginia Women : Their Lives and Times
DDC:
305.409755
Keywords:
Women -- Virginia -- History
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Women -- Virginia -- Social conditions
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Women -- Virginia -- Biography
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Women ; Virginia ; Biography
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Women ; Virginia ; History
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Women ; Virginia ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth century through the Civil War era. Placing their subjects in their larger historical contexts, the authors show how the experiences of Virginia women varied by race, class, age, and marital status, and also across both space and time. Some essays examine the lives of wellknown women-such as F
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Grace Sherwood: The Virginia Witch; Cockacoeske and Sarah Harris Stegge Grendon: Bacon's Rebellion and the Roles of Women; Jane Webb and Her Family: Life Stories and the Law in Early Virginia; Clementina Rind: Widowed Printer of Williamsburg; Sarah Jerdone: Negotiating Revolution; Anne Henry Christian: Chronicling Family and Business on the Revolutionary Frontier; Mary Draper Ingles: A Survivor in Her Time and a Legend Ever Since; Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell: Champion of Faith in the Early Republic
Description / Table of Contents:
Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent Carrington: A Founder of the Female Humane Association for Orphan Girls in RichmondDolley Madison: A Case Study in Southern Style; Harriet Hemings: Daughter of the President's Slave; Edy Turner: The Nottoway Indians' "Female Chief "; Ann R. Page and Mary L. Custis: From Annfield and Arlington to Africa, with Love; Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge: Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in New England and Beyond; Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Lady, Union Spy; Antonia Ford Willard: Southern Belle, Yankee Wife; Sally Louisa Tompkins: Confederate Healer; Contributors; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Note:
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