Georgia Women
Their Lives and Times—Volume 1

Edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood

Life-and-times histories of women from Georgia

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"Women have made their mark on all aspects of Georgia's history, from early colonization and revolution, through slavery, war, and defeat, and on through the era of racial repression and reform. Their stories, as told here by accomplished historians all, provide valuable new gendered lenses through which to view that history afresh. Full of new insights and fascinating reading throughout."
—John C. Inscoe, editor of The New Georgia Encyclopedia

"This important work brings to light the role of significant women in our state's history. Reflecting the latest scholarship in the field, it brings more depth and analysis to women whose stories may be familiar and introduces women whose efforts and contributions deserve a place in Georgia's historical record."
—Lee Ann Caldwell, director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History, Augusta State University


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This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in this volume include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia’s history.

Though sources for understanding the lives of women in Georgia during the colonial period are scarce, the early essays profile Mary Musgrove, an important player in the relations between the Creek nation and the British Crown, and the loyalist Elizabeth Johnston, who left Georgia for Nova Scotia in 1806. Another essay examines the near-mythical quality of the American Revolution-era accounts of “Georgia’s War Woman,” Nancy Hart. The later essays are multifaceted in their examination of the way different women experienced Georgia’s antebellum social and political life, the tumult of the Civil War, and…

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Southern Women: Their Lives and Times

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Ann Short Chirhart is an associate professor of history at Indiana State University. Her books include Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South, and Georgia Women, Vol. 1 (Georgia). Betty Wood is a reader in American history at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her books include Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age, Women's Work, Men's Work, Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776, and Georgia Women, Vol. 1 (all Georgia).