Molly Elliot Seawell
Molly Elliot Seawell was the author of forty books, including regional fiction, romances, books for boys (primarily nautical stories), and nonfiction.
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Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale was a prolific author of short stories, novels, nonfiction, plays, and memoirs.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Prolific writer of biographical studies, poetry, and a temperance novel.
Mary Spear Tiernan
Movelist, essayist, and occasional poet who wrote primarily about central Virginia before and during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Mary Virginia Terhune
Marion Harland was a writer of novels, short stories, biographies, travel narratives, cookbooks, and domestic manuals whose career stretched across seven decades of sectional conflict and great change in American life.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Writer, historian, and lecturer, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies, having shaped Emory University’s Institution of Women’s Studies as its first director from 1986 to 1991.
Sarah Ann Brock
Sarah Ann Brock, a writer who often published under the pseudonym Virginia Madison, published numerous editorials, historical articles, reviews, essays, letters, travel sketches, short stories, biographies, and translations in her career.
Rosemary Daniell
A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Eleanor Ross Taylor was a poet, short-fiction author, and literary critic.
Ruby Altizer Roberts
Ruby Altizer Roberts is the author of two collections of poetry, three memoirs, a children’s book, and a genealogy. She was named Virginia’s first female poet laureate in 1950 and, until 1994, was the only woman to have held the post.