Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

by Emilee Hines

How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's 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 Virginia's 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.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2015

About the author

Though she is a native Virginian, Emilee Hines finds she is always learning new and interesting things about the history of her home state. She is a graduate of Lynchburg College and has a master's degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught in Virginia and Kenya. She enjoys writing, traveling, and exploring western North Carolina in her Mustang."

Reviews

[Colleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I appreciate what the author is trying to do, but this attempt misses the mark. Virginia's women deserve well written histories.