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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458457303321

Titolo

Georgia women [[electronic resource] ] : their lives and times . Volume 1 / / edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-91959-8

9786612919596

0-8203-3900-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Southern Women : Their Lives and Times

Altri autori (Persone)

ChirhartAnn Short

WoodBetty

Disciplina

975.809

Soggetti

Women - Georgia

Women - Georgia - History

Electronic books.

Georgia Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Ann Short Chirhart with Betty Wood -- Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-1765) : maligned mediator or mischievous malefactor / Julie Anne Sweet -- Nancy Hart (ca. 1735-ca. 1830) : "Too good not to tell again" / John Thomas Scott -- Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (1764-1848) : "Shot round the world but not heard" / Ben Marsh -- Ellen Craft (ca. 1826-1891) : the fugitive who fled as a planter / Barbara McCaskill -- Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) and Frances Butler Leigh (1838-1910) : becoming Georgian / Daniel Kilbride -- Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) : "I gave my services willingly" / Catherine Clinton -- Eliza Frances Andrews (1840-1931) : "I will have to say Damn! yet, before I am done with them" / Christopher J. Olsen -- Amanda America Dickson (1849-1893) : a wealthy lady of color in nineteenth-century Georgia / Kent Anderson Leslie -- Mary Gay (1829-1918) : sin, self, and survival in the post-Civil War South / Michele Gillespie -- Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) : the problem of protection in the new South / LeeAnn Whites -- Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921) : "Mother of suffrage work in Georgia" / Stacey Horstmann Gatti -- Mildred Lewis Rutherford



(1851-1928) : the redefinition of new South White womanhood / Sarah Case -- Nellie Peters Black (1851-1919) : Georgia's Pioneer Club woman / Carey Olmstead Shellman -- Lucy Craft Laney (1855-1933) and Martha Berry (1866-1942) : lighting fires of knowledge / Jennifer Lund Smith -- Corra Harris (1869-1935) : the storyteller as folk preacher / Donald Mathews -- Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) : late-blooming daisy / Anastatia Hodgens Sims.