Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820342637 ISBN 13: 9780820342634

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 well-known women―such as First Lady Dolley Madison―from a new perspective. Others introduce readers to relatively obscure historical figures: the convicted witch Grace Sherwood; the colonial printer Clementina Rind; Harriet Hemings, the enslaved daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Essays on the frontier heroine Mary Draper Ingles and the Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew examine the real women behind the legends. Altogether, the essays in this collection offer readers an engaging and personal window onto the experiences of women in the Old Dominion.

About this title

Book Description:

Life-and-times histories of women from Virginia

About the Author:

Cynthia A. Kierner (Editor)
CYNTHIA A. KIERNER is a professor of history at George Mason University.

Sandra Gioia Treadway (Editor)
SANDRA GIOIA TREADWAY is the director of the Library of Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0820342637
• ISBN 13: 9780820342634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Kierner Cynthia A., Treadway Sandra Gioia