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

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. 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 and Julia Gardiner Tyler: the Tyler women Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew: Virginia's lady spies Amelie Rives: notorious author Maggie Lena Walker: banker and philanthropist Edith Bolling Wilson: acting president Ellen Glasgow: prize-winning author Nancy Langhorne Astor: member of Parliament Anne Spencer: poet and activist Lucy Randolph Mason: union organizer Patsy Cline: queen of country and pop star.