101 women who shaped South Carolina. / Valinda Littlefield, Walter Edgar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edgar, Walter B., 1943- writer of foreword.

Littlefield, Valinda W., 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--South Carolina--Encyclopedias.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

One hundred and one women who shaped South Carolina

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This collection gathers entries previously published as part of the South Carolina Encyclopedia. Each entry offers a thumbnail description of a woman with a connection to South Carolina who made a significant impact in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world. The collection is organized chronologically by time period, with women associated with each period included in that section. Introductory material is provided by Valinda W. Littlefield, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Madame Rose Talvande (ca. 1790-ca. 1840) and Madame Ann Marsan (Mason) Talvande (ca. 1807-1850)

Esther Hill Hawks (1833-1906)

Martha Schofield (1839-1916)

Susie King Taylor (ca. 1848-1912)

Abbie Mandana Holmes Christensen (1852-1938)

Mary Honor Farrow Wright (1862-1946)

Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872-1906)

Mattie Jean Adams (1873-1947)

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

Ida Jane Dacus (1875-1964)

Laura Bragg (1881-1978)

Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984)

Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987)

Eudora Ramsay Richardson (1891-1973)

Irene Dillard Elliott (1892-1978)

Valerie Sayers (1952-present)

Lynn Carol Finney (1957-present)

PART 3 Artists, Athletes, and Entertainers

Clara Louise Kellogg (1842-1916)

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958)

Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956)

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883-1979)

Lily Strickland (1884-1958)

Lucile Ellerbe Godbold (1900-1981)

Lillian Ellison (1923-2007)

Althea Gibson (1927-2003)

Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)

Mary Jackson (1945-present)

Martha Marshall Chapman II (1949-present)

Vanna White (1957-present)

Dawn Michelle Staley (1970-present)

PART 4 Educators and Activists

Phoebe Yates Pember (1823-1913)

Susan Dupont Petigru King (1824-1875)

Harriott Horry Rutledge Ravenel (1832-1912)

Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921)

Frances Guignard Gibbes (1870-1948)

Beatrice Ravenel (1870-1956)

Julia Mood Peterkin (1880-1961)

Anne King Gregorie (1887-1960)

Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons (1890-1969)

Mary Chevillette Simms Oliphant (1891-1988)

Grace Lumpkin (ca. 1896-1980)

Gwen Bristow (1903-1980)

Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008)

Vertamae Grosvenor (1938-2016)

Charlayne Hunter-Gault (1942-present)

Mary Barnett Poppenheim (1866-1936) and Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim (1868-1957)

Susan Pringle Frost (1873-1960)

Pollitzer Sisters (1881-1979)

Eunice Temple Ford Stackhouse (1885-1980)

Frances Ravenel Smythe Edmunds (1916-2010)

Charity Edna Adams Earley (1918-2002)

Caroline Etheredge Hembel (1918-2001)

Crandall Close Bowles (1947-present)

Darla Dee Moore (1954-present)

PART 2 Writers, Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets

Maria Henrietta Pinckney (?-1836)

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879)

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886)

Cover

101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1 Reformers, Organizers, and Leaders

Lady of Cofitachequi (1540)

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (ca. 1722-1793)

Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879)

Ann Pamela Cunningham (1816-1875)

Mary Amarinthia Snowden (1819-1898)

Sarah Flournoy Moore Chapin (ca. 1830-1896)

Rollin Sisters (1845-1934)

Mary Putnam Gridley (1850-1939)

Clelia Peronneau McGowan (1865-1956)

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781643361581

1643361589

OCLC:

1193557670