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

Author/Contributor(s):	Hines, Emilee
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Date:	11/15/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.