Virginia's Remarkable Women

A native Virginian and currently a freelance writer, Emilee Hines taught history, English, and creative writing for thirty-two years. A historian by training, she is a graduate of Lynchburg College and has a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of seven volumes of Old Virginia Houses, over 250 published articles and short stories, and Globe Pequot's It Happened in Virginia and Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, DC History. She lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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
From Actress to Acting First Lady

Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew
Virginia's Lady Spies

Maggie Lena Walker
Banker and Philanthropist

Edith Bolling Wilson
Acting President

Ellen Glasgow
Best-selling Author

Nancy Langhorne Astor
Member of Parliament

Anne Spencer
Heaven's Virginia

Lucy Randolph Mason
Labor Organizer

Bibliography

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