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.
- ISBN10 1493016067
- ISBN13 9781493016068
- Publish Date 15 November 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Globe Pequot Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 200
- Language English