Abstract:
North Carolina women have been foremost in various arenas since the State's earliest history. Lawrence provides a detailed list of outstanding females, such as authors (Cornelia Phillips Spencer), poets (Pattie Williams Gee), educators (Eliza Poole and Elizabeth McRae), public servants (Dr. Jane McKimmon), lawyers (A. M. Fry), physicians (Delia Dixon-Carroll), newspaper women (Beatrice Cobb), politicians (T. Palmer Jerman, and the most famous of all, (according to Lawrence) Dolly Madison.