e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia Online
A project of the West Virginia Humanities Council
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A Few of West Virginia's Extraordinary Women
Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854)
Betty Zane (ca. 1760-1823)
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
Sirene Bunten (1847-1912)
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)
Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955)
Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956)
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894-1984)
"Aunt Jennie" Wilson (1900-1992)
Mary McClain (1902-2000)
Susanne Fisher (1903-1990)
Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008)
Louise McNeill (1911-1993)
Eleanor Steber (1914-1990)
Ann Baker (1915-1999)
Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005)
Dagmar (1921-2001)
Toni Stone (1921-1996)
Joanne Dru (1922-1996)
Mildred Mitchell-Bateman (1922-2012)
Maryat Lee (1923-1989)
Katherine Johnson (1928-2020)
Doris Piserchia (1928-2021)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born 1933)
Irene McKinney (1939-2012)
Connie Smith (born 1941)
Jude Binder (born 1942)
Denise Giardina (born 1951)
Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952)
Cynthia Rylant (born 1954)
Kathy Mattea (born 1959)
Patrice Harris (born 1960)
Vicky Bullett (born 1967)
Mary Lou Retton (born 1968)
Jennifer Garner (born 1972)
Emily Calandrelli (born 1987)
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West Virginia Women in World War II
Winifred Love
Delores I. Dowling
Florence Aby Blanchfield
Ruby Bradley
Jean Lee Latham
Rose Agnes Rolls
Serving in Other Ways
Women on the Homefront
March 06, 2025 10:43
West Virginia Women through History
Rural Life
Women's Lives in Company Towns
Industrial Jobs for Women
Political and Social Activism
Changing Lives of Women in the 1920s
World War II
Professional Opportunities
Conclusion: Challenges in Modern Times
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Women Politicians and Social Activists
Livia Simpson Poffenbarger (1862-1937)
Carrie Williams (ca. 1866-1930)
Sarah Blizzard (1864-1955)
Lenna Lowe Yost (1878-1972)
Izetta Jewel Brown (1883-1978)
Anna Johnson Gates (1889-1939)
Minnie Buckingham Harper (1886-1978)
"Pistol Nell" Walker (1889-1962)
Memphis Tennessee Garrison (1890-1988)
Elizabeth Simpson Drewry (1893-1979)
Elizabeth Kee (1899-1975)
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore (1910-1986)
Helen Holt (1913-2015)
Virginia Mae Brown (1923-1991)
Elizabeth V. Hallanan (1925-2004)
Hazel Dickens (1935-2011)
Betty Ireland (born 1945)
Margaret Workman (born 1947)
Elaine Purkey (1949-2020)
Charlotte Pritt (born 1949)
Jorea Marple (born 1949)
Carol Miller (born 1950)
Judy Bonds (1952-2011)
Shelley Moore Capito (born 1953)
Sylvia Mathews Burwell (born 1965)
Natalie Tennant (born 1967)
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