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? Virginias 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 Virginias 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.