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Jean Miller Skipwith Ethel Bailey Furman The Library of Virginia presents the 2010 Virginia Women in 1 (1748–1826) 5 (1893–1976) History project to honor eight women, past and present, who MECKLENBURG COUNTY RICHMOND have made important contributions to Virginia, the nation, ARCHITECT GINIA BOOK COLLECTOR R VI and the world. We encourage you to learn more about these F Y O R A BR Jean Miller Skipwith, Lady Skipwith, Ethel Bailey Furman was one of the earliest I L fascinating women who saw things differently from their E TH assembled one of the largest libraries African American women to work as an F SY O SY E contemporaries, developed new approaches to old problems, T owned by a Virginia woman early in the architect in Virginia. R COU E nineteenth century. served their communities, strove for excellence based on the IMAG GINIA R VI NOMINATED BY: F courage of their convictions, and initiated changes in Virginia Y O R ALYSON L. TAYLOR-WHITE, CHESTER A BR I L E and the United States that continue to affect our lives today. TH F SY O SY E T R COU E IMAG Kate Mason Rowland Edythe C. Harrison 2 (1840–1916) 6 (1934– ) VIRGINIA RICHMOND NORFOLK WRITER CIVIC LEADER IN Kate Mason Rowland is best known Edythe C. Harrison’s love of music led her WOMEN for her biography of her great-great- to help found the Virginia Opera Association. granduncle George Mason. NOMINATED BY: GINIA GINIA R R HISTORY VI VI F RASHAD HAIRSTON, IN PATRICIA F Y O Y O R R A COSTIS’S FOURTH-GRADE CLASS (2009), A BR BR I I L L E DREAMKEEPERS ACADEMY, NORFOLK E TH TH F F SY O SY O SY E E T T R R COU COU E E IMAG IMAG Mollie Holmes Adams Marian A. Van Landingham 2010 (1937– ) 3 (1881–1973) 7 Presented by: KING WILLIAM COUNTY ALEXANDRIA UPPER MATTAPONI LEADER CIVIC LEADER Mollie Holmes Adams helped preserve Marian A. Van Landingham founded a the Upper Mattaponi heritage by passing one-of-a-kind art center in Alexandria. on the almost-lost art of feather weaving and recording her herbal remedies. GINIA GINIA R R VI VI F NOMINATED BY: F Y O Y O R R A A BR BR I ARLENE MILNER, KEYSVILLE I L L E E TH TH F F SY O SY O SY E E T T R R COU COU E E IMAG IMAG Queena Stovall Janis Martin E (1888–1980) (1940–2007) G E 4 8 OLL C G R LYNCHBURG AND AMHERST COUNTY DANVILLE U B ARTIST SINGER AND COMPOSER YNCH L Y, Y, ER ALL G A Known as the “Female Elvis,” Janis Martin R Taking up painting early in her sixties, AU D E Queena Stovall created works that was a pioneer rockabilly star. recalled her life in rural Virginia and earned her the title the “Grandma Moses ITH THANKS TO TH W GINIA R I of Virginia.” V F www.lva.virginia.gov/vawomen Y O R ALL FAMILY ALL FAMILY A V BR TO S LI E E TH TH F F MEDIA SPONSOR SY O SY O SY E E T T R R COU COU E E IMAG IMAG omen have played an integral part in Virginia 1737–1832, profiling a Maryland signer of the Declaration her instructor, the celebrated painter Pierre Daura, of Independence. encouraged her to drop the class and develop her own www.lva.virginia.gov 23129-8000 A V Richmond treet S from its beginnings, yet their contributions have Broad East 800 W n unique painting style. In 1956 Stovall mounted a solo often been overlooked in the history books. Until well Born in Detroit, Rowland later moved to Virginia with her family exhibition at the Lynchburg Art Center. into the twentieth century, written histories tended and lived in Richmond during the Civil War. Her experiences to focus on the historically male-dominated fields while tending to wounded soldiers influenced her later writing Stovall’s approximately fifty paintings document her life of government and politics, the military, and large- and work in memorializing the Confederacy. Rowland edited The on a farm, as well as events that occurred among her Poems of Frank O. Ticknor, M.D. (1879), a southern lyric poet, neighbors, both black and white. She combined careful scale property ownership to the virtual exclusion of and Charles L. C. Minor’s book The Real Lincoln (1901). She detail with bright colors to produce nostalgic scenes of all other venues of leadership or achievement. They also coedited The Journal of Julia LeGrand, New Orleans, 1862– ordinary life. She occasionally used figures cut out of ignored women’s critical roles as wives, mothers, 1863 (1911). Sensitive to negative portrayals of the Confederacy, magazines to solve compositional problems. Largely educators, nurses, lay leaders, farmers, artists, Rowland contributed to many magazines and newspapers. She self-taught, she maintained an informal connection objected to northerners who described former Confederates as to Daura. Stovall continued to paint until her health writers, reformers, pioneers, business leaders, “Rebels” and insisted on referring to the conflict as the “War began to fail late in the 1960s. She completed her last laborers, civic activists, and community builders. Between the States.” composition, Comp’ny Comin’, in 1967. The collections of Lynchburg College, the Virginia Museum of Fine Today, we recognize and celebrate women’s As corresponding secretary of the national United Daughters Arts, and the New York State Historical Association of the Confederacy for 1896 and 1897, Rowland lobbied for hold examples of her work. accomplishments in all walks of life, particularly in organizing new local chapters in northern and southern states. March, which Congress has designated as National After living in Baltimore, by 1900 she had returned to Richmond Women’s History Month. The Library of Virginia and was serving as an honorary president of the Virginia Division Ethel Bailey Furman presents the 2010 Virginia Women in History project UDC when she died in 1916. RICHMOND ARCHITECT www.lva.virginia.gov/vw2010. at to honor eight women, past and present, who have NOMINATED BY RASHAD HAIRSTON, IN PATRICIA made important contributions to Virginia, the nation, COSTIS’S FOURTH-GRADE CLASS (2009), DREAMKEEPERS The daughter of a Richmond building contractor, Ethel available are project 2011 the for forms nomination and nstructional materials materials nstructional I and the world. We encourage you to learn more ACADEMY, NORFOLK. Madison Bailey Carter Furman (July 6, 1893–February www.virginiamemory.com. at emory Web site site Web emory M Virginia ibrary’s L recognized regional company that stages four operas each the on and ) 1998– about these fascinating women who saw things 24, 1976) studied architecture privately in New York Virginia Biography Virginia ibrary of Virginia, Virginia, of ibrary L he T City. Returning to Richmond with her family in 1921, she began performance season in Norfolk, Richmond, and Fairfax County. (Richmond: differently from their contemporaries, developed She directed the campaign to raise $10 million to convert an old IMAGES ABOVE AND LEFT COURTESY OF THE TORPEDO FACTORY ART Dictionary of of Dictionary earn more about Virginia women in the the in women Virginia about more earn Mollie Holmes Adams designing houses for local residents. She worked in partnership CENTER, ALEXANDRIA. IMAGES BELOW WRVA RADIO COLLECTION L new approaches to old problems, served their KING WILLIAM COUNTY with her father, while also raising three children and holding a Norfolk auditorium into a modern opera house, which opened in (1925–2000), ACC. 38210, LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA. communities, strove for excellence based on the UPPER MATTAPONI LEADER variety of other jobs to supplement her family’s income. 1993 as the Edythe C. and Stanley L. Harrison Opera House. In 1979 President Jimmy Carter appointed Harrison to the Advisory courage of their convictions, and initiated changes Mollie Wade Holmes Adams (October 8, 1881–December 14, Committee on the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the in Virginia and the United States that continue to 1973) grew up in King William County in the Adamstown (later Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. stardom was just as dramatic as her meteoric rise to fame—she affect our lives today. the Upper Mattaponi) Indian community. She faced the same secretly married and became pregnant, so RCA Victor dropped hardships as her neighbors, including poverty, difficulty in their teenage star. Martin returned to Southside Virginia, raised Marian A. Van Landingham This year’s project marks the Library of Virginia’s attaining education, and the racism of outsiders. In 1900 she her children, managed a country club, and occasionally played married Jasper Lewis Adams, who served as chief of the Upper ALEXANDRIA locally. A resurgence of interest in rockabilly music in the 1980s participation in the 2010 statewide program “Minds Mattaponi from 1923 to 1973. Mollie Adams joined her husband CIVIC LEADER brought her international attention. Martin performed in Europe Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts.” as a leader of the tribe as he facilitated the purchase and and at major rockabilly shows across the United States. She died construction of the Sharon Indian School in 1919 and the Indian Marian A. Van Landingham (born September 10, 1937) encourages of cancer in 2007, leaving a powerful legacy of recordings and View Baptist Church in 1942. artistic spirit and volunteerism in her community. She was born fans worldwide. in Albany, Georgia. In 1973, as the president of the Alexandria Raising her twelve children, Adams faced the bigotry of Walter A. Art League, Van Landingham led a movement to renovate a Jean Miller Skipwith Plecker’s management of the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics.