Women writers burried in Virginia / Sharon Pajka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pajka-West, Sharon L., author.

Contributor:

John Louis Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Virginia.

Women authors, American.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Sepulchral monuments--Virginia.

Sepulchral monuments.

Virginia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.

Summary:

America has an array of women writers who have made history--and many of them lived, died and were buried in Virginia.(/b> -- Gothic novelists, writers of Westerns and African American poets, these writers include a Pulitzer Prize winner, the first woman writer to be named Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the first woman to top the best-seller lists in the twentieth century. Mary Roberts Rinehart was a bestselling mystery author often called "the American Agatha Christie." Anne Spencer was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. V. C. Andrews was so popular that when she died a court ruled that her name was taxable, and the poetry of Susan Archer Talley Weiss received praise from Edgar Allan Poe. -- Professor and cemetery history enthusiast Sharon Pajka has written a guide to their accomplishments in life and to their final resting places.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Cleo Virginia Andrews, "VC. Andrews" (1923

1986)

Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth

2. Jane Briggs Howison Beale (1815

1882)

Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg

3. Helen Gordon Beale (1834

1885)

4. Kate Lee Langley Bosher (1865

1932)

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond

5. Rosa Dixon Bowser (1855

1931)

East End Cemetery, Richmond

6. Estelle Aubrey Brown (1877

1958)

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington

7. Ella Howard Bryan, "Clinton Dangerfield" (1872

1954)

Woodland Cemetery, Ashland

8. Letitia "Lettie" McCrcery Burwcll (1831

1905)

Longwood Cemetery, Bedford

9. Nancy Larrick Crosby (1910

2004)

Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester

10. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Petit Cutler (1831

1902)

Riverview Cemetery, Richmond

11. Virginia Emeline Butts Davidson (1833

1911)

Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg

12. Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis (1864

1898)

13. Varina Anne Banks Howell Davis (1826

1906)

14. Judith L.C. Garnett (1862

1938)

Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Henrico

15. Ellen Glasgow (1873

1945)

16. Lizzie Chambers Hall (1874

1965)

Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg

17. Constance Fairfax Cary Harrison (1843

1920)

Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria

18. Lucy Norvell Harrison (1878

1955)

Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond

19. Mary Jane Haw (1835

1927)

20. Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (1831

1915)

Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington

21. Mary Johnston (1870

1936)

22. Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan (1830

Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg

23. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819

1907)

24. Mary Tucker Magill (1830

1899)

25. Julia Magruder (1854

Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville

26. Katherine Boyce Tupper Marshall (1882

1978)

27. Frances McEntee Martin (1906

1998)

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk

28. Mabel Wood Martin (1888

1956)

29. Judith Brockenbrough McGuire (1813

1897)

St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Tappahannock

30. Margaret Prescott Montague (1878

31. LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell Pickett (1843

32. Margaret Junkin Preston (1820

33. Eudora Woolfolk Ramsay Richardson (1891

1973)

34. Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876

35. Judith Page Walker Rives (1802

Rives-Troubetzkoy Cemetery, Albemarle County

36. Ruby Thelma Altizer Roberts (1907

Sunset Cemetery, Christiansburg

37. Sally Berkeley Nelson Robins (1855

1925)

Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery, Gloucester

38. Anne Spencer (1882

1975)

Forest Hill Burial Park, Lynchburg

39. Mary Newton Stanard (1865

1929)

40. Amelie Louise Rives Chanler Troubetzkoy (1863

41. Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1867

1952)

42. Marie Teresa "Tere" Rios Versace (1917

1999)

43. Susan Archer Talley Weiss (1822

1917)

44. Annie Steger Winston (1862

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

ISBN:

1467150665

9781467150668

OCLC:

1265456097

Publisher Number:

99989456328