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Title 101 women who shaped South Carolina / edited by Valinda Littlefield ; foreword by Walter Edgar.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 Foreword / Walter Edgar -- Introduction -- PART 1. REFORMERS, ORGANIZERS, AND LEADERS: Lady of Cofitachequi (1540) -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney (ca. 1722-1793) -- Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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: 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) -- Kate Vixon Wofford (1894-1954) -- Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) -- Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992) -- Ruby Ethel Middleton Forsythe (1905-1992) -- Donella Brown Wilson -- (1909-2017) -- Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998) -- Bernice Violanthe Robinson (1914-1994) -- Fannie Phelps Adams (1917-2016) -- Henrie Monteith Treadwell (1946-present) --
PART 5. MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS: Sarah Campbell Allan (1861-1954) -- Lucy Hughes Brown (1863-1911) -- Anna De Costa Banks (1869-9130) -- Matilda Arabella Evans (1872-1935) -- Love Rosa Hirschmann Gannt (1876-1935) -- Jane Bruce Guignard (1876-1963) -- Nina Littlejohn (1879-1963) -- Marian Baxter Paul (1897-1980) -- Maude Daniel Callen (1898-1990) -- Hilla Sheriff (1903-1988) -- Catherine Mae McKee McCottry (1921-2018) --
PART 6. LEGISLATORS, JURISTS, AND POLITICAL ACRIVISTS: Virginia Durant Covington Young (1842-1906) -- Emily Plume Evans (1865-1942) -- Eulalie Chafee Salley (1883-1975) -- Mary Gordon Ellis (1890-1934) -- James Margrave Perry (1894-1964) -- Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright (1902-1989) -- Barbara Wischan Moxon (1921-2011) -- Harriet Keyserling (1922-2010) -- Ferdinan Backer Stevenson (1928-2001) -- Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-present) -- Nell Whitley Smith (1929-2011) -- Sarah Mae Fleming Brown (1933-1993) -- Gladys Elizabeth Johnston Patterson (1939-2018) -- Jean Hoefer Toal (1943-present) -- Nikki Randhawa Haley (1972-present).
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Subject Women -- South Carolina -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Women.
South Carolina.
History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Encyclopedias.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Added Author Littlefield, Valinda W., 1953- author.
Edgar, Walter B., 1943- writer of foreword.
Added Title One hundred and one women who shaped South Carolina
Other Form: Print version: 101 women who shaped South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020] 9781643361581 (DLC) 2020040361
ISBN 1643361600 electronic book
9781643361604 (electronic book)
9781643361581 hardcover
9781643361598 paperback