More Than Petticoats Remarkable Tennessee Women

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women presents the stories of twelve extraordinary women from Tennessee's past. Some of these women are well-known, such as Elizabeth Gilmer, who transformed herself into columnist Dorothy Dix, and Sarah Polk, America's eleventh First Lady. Others are less familiar, such as Ida B. Wells Barnett, one of the first Black investigative juournalists, and Emma Bell Mills, who recorded rural mountain life through words and paintings. The women featured in