More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women

by Susan Sawyer

Overview

How did Tennessee become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women recognizes the women who shaped the "Volunteer State." The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762769810
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2014
Series:	More than Petticoats Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Sawyer enjoys exploring the past and writing about historical topics. History serves as the centerpiece for many of her writings, taking the form of both fact and fiction. Drawing upon her fascination with the history of her native South, Susan has written seven historical and contemporary romance novels. She is also the author of Myths and Mysteries of Tennessee. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Susan worked as a magazine editor and communications consultant before establishing a career as a freelance writer. Today, she writes full-time from her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Ron.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Beloved Woman Nancy Ward 1

Beloved, Wife of "Old, Hickory" Rachel Donelson Jackson 10

First Lady Sarah Childress Polk 20

First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson 29

Mistress of Belle Meade Plantation Elizabeth McGavock Harding 38

The Widow of the South Caroline Winder McGavock 50

Columnist Dorothy Dix Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer 60

Investigative Journalist and Social Reformer Ida B. Wells Barnett 72

First Woman Elected to US Senate Hattie Wyatt Caraway 72

Artist, Writer, and Poet Emma Bell Miles 82

Physician and Hospital Founder Emma Rochelle Wheeler 101

Suffragist and Political Activist Sue Shelton White 107

Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith 118

The Tennessee Nightingale Grace Moore 128

Bibliography 140

Index 147

About the Author 150