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Georgia women [electronic resource] : their lives and times. Volume 1 / edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Southern Women : Their Lives and Times
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Georgia--Biography.
- Women.
- Women--Georgia--History.
- Georgia--Biography.
- Georgia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in t
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-91959-8
- 9786612919596
- 0-8203-3900-8
- OCLC:
- 731902985
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