Portraits of Women in West Virginia
Timeline of West Virginia Women's History
"A Captive of the Shawnees, 1779-1784"
Sources on Mary Draper Ingles
"Mary Ingles' Escape Story Like 'Thriller' Fiction
Tale"
Sources on Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Sources on Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett
"Ohio River Baroness Returns to Her Early 18th Century
Home"
"The Desert Isle," by Margaret Blennerhassett
Lewisburg Female Institute
Morgantown Female Academy
Sources on Belle Boyd
Sources on Nancy Hart
"Five Tri-State Women During the Civil War"
"A Civil War Diary From French Creek: Selections From
the Diary of Sirene Bunten"
West Virginia Legislature Rejects Proposal to Admit Women
to WVU
"Anything But Cordial: Coeducation and West Virginia
University's Early Women"
Formation of West Virginia Federation of Women's
Clubs
"Women's Clubs Formed State Federation"
"Womans Club: State Federation Will Be Organized at
Meetings Now Being Held"
"West Virginia Women's Organizations, 1880s-1930 or
Unsexed Termagants...Help the World Along" (West Virginia History)
"Persecution and Acceptance: The Strange History of
Discrimination Against Married Women Teachers in West Virginia"
Jameson vs. Board of Education: Supreme
Court Decision
"Mrs. Jameson Finally Wins Famous Suit"
West Virginia Women's Suffrage Movement
Sources on the Woman Suffrage Movement in West
Virginia
Women's Suffrage
"A Profile of Political Activists: Women of the West
Virginia Woman Suffrage Movement"
West Virginia House of Delegates Resolution to Ratify the
19th Amendment
Extracts From Messages to the Senate In Support or
Opposition to the Suffrage Amendment.
Speech of Delegate J. S. Thurmond, March 8, 1920
Biography of Lenna Lowe Yost
"Suffragists Begin Work Of Education"
"West Virginia Suffragetts"
Biography of Elizabeth Simpson Drewry
"Three Big Mines In Local Region To Resume Operations"
(Women
Pickets at Owings Mine)
"Pickets Quiet at Consol Mines" (Women Pickets at Owings
Mine)
"Lawyer Explains New Union Plan For Operating Coal Mines In
Local Region" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
"Strategies for Survival: Women's Work in the Southern
West Virginia Coal Camps"
Perfection Garment Company Strike
Anne Bailey
Biography of Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
Sources on Bricktop
Irene Drukker Broh
Izetta Jewell Brown
Virginia Mae Brown
Pearl Buck
Fannie Cobb Carter
Rebecca Harding Davis
Anna Gates
Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally)
Lydia Kimble Graham
Helen Holt
Anna Jarvis and Mother's Day
Harriet B. Jones
Mother Jones
Elizabeth Kee
Virginia Louise Link
Sources on Louise McNeill Pease
Livia Nye Simpson Poffenbarger
Elizabeth Zane
Incorporation of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union
Creation of the Mother's Pension Fund
Willow Island's American Cyanamid Plant Enforces Fetal
Protection
Policy
"Recovery and Revision: Women's History and West
Virginia"
"Women's Work in the West Virginia
Economy"
"Women's Work, Never Done: West Virginia Farm
Women,
1880s-1920s"
"Women in the Industrial Work Force in West Virginia,
1880-
1945"
"Midwifery in West Virginia"
"Women's Legal Rights in West Virginia,
1863-1984"
Women Coal Miners
Additional Reading on West Virginia Women's History