Virginia women : their lives and times. Volume 1 / / edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway
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| Titolo: |
Virginia women : their lives and times. Volume 1 / / edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.409755 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Virginia - History |
| Women - Virginia - Social conditions | |
| Women - Virginia | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | KiernerCynthia A. <1958-> |
| TreadwaySandra Gioia | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Grace Sherwood: The Virginia Witch""; ""Cockacoeske and Sarah Harris Stegge Grendon: Bacon�s Rebellion and the Roles of Women""; ""Jane Webb and Her Family: Life Stories and the Law in Early Virginia""; ""Clementina Rind: Widowed Printer of Williamsburg""; ""Sarah Jerdone: Negotiating Revolution""; ""Anne Henry Christian: Chronicling Family and Business on the Revolutionary Frontier""; ""Mary Draper Ingles: A Survivor in Her Time and a Legend Ever Since""; ""Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell: Champion of Faith in the Early Republic"" |
| ""Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent Carrington: A Founder of the Female Humane Association for Orphan Girls in Richmond""""Dolley Madison: A Case Study in Southern Style""; ""Harriet Hemings: Daughter of the President�s Slave""; ""Edy Turner: The Nottoway Indians� “Female Chief �""; ""Ann R. Page and Mary L. Custis: From Annfield and Arlington to Africa, with Love""; ""Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge: Thomas Jefferson�s Granddaughter in New England and Beyond""; ""Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Lady, Union Spy""; ""Antonia Ford Willard: Southern Belle, Yankee Wife"" | |
| ""Sally Louisa Tompkins: Confederate Healer""""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 wellknown women-such as |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Virginia women |
| ISBN: | 0-8203-4263-7 |
| 0-8203-4741-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807703903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Southern Women: Their Lives and Times