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After Virginia Woolf had moved to Monk's House, East Sussex, she met Vita Sackville-West, writing her roman à clef Orlando: A Biography about her. Woolf also met the LGBT people around her, including: [9] Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband; Benedict Nicolson, their son; Violet Trefusis, her former lover
An exhibition, Queena Stovall, Artist of the Blue Ridge Piedmont, was mounted in 1974–1975 and traveled to Lynchburg College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 6–25, 1974; to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, January–March, 1975; and to the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York ...
Cynthia Eppes Hudson (born 1959), Nottoway County, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia; Mary Virginia Jones (born 1940), Prince William County, mechanical engineer [35] Louise Harrison McCraw (1893–1975), Buckingham, author and executive secretary of the Braille Circulating Library; Doris Crouse-Mays (born 1958), Wythe County, labor leader
The Constitutions of 1830 and 1850 expanded suffrage but did not equalize white male apportionment statewide. The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860. Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Virginia Dare's name has also been used to sell a number of products. Virginia Dare was the name of the first commercial wine to sell after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. [29] The Virginia Dare Extract Company, a maker of vanilla products, sells its products with a symbol of Virginia as a fresh-faced, blonde girl wearing a white ruffled mob ...
Other female Virginian writers include Mary Tucker Magill (Woman, or a Chronicle of the Late War, 1867), Myrta Lockett Avary (A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1903), Maie Dove Day (The Blended Flags), Susan Archer Tally and Marion Harland. Marion Fontaine Cabell Tyree's Housekeeping in Old Virginia, a cookbook, was published in Richmond in ...
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