Greetings: I thought you might find interesting the following : Outrageous Women of Colonial America, by Mary Rodd Furbee, has been published by John Wiley & Sons. The paperback book is geared for children ages 9-14. Shawnee Capitive: The Story of Mary Ingles, another book by Furbee, has also been released by Morgan Reynolds Publishing of North Carolina. Outrageous Women of Colonial America features 14 women of diverse regions, races, professions and backgrounds, including two women of western Virginia. The women featured in the book were puritan preachers, eastern aristocrats, native queens, and backwoods settlers. They were English, Scottish, African and Indian. They were rich, poor, slave and free. Some were rebels with a cause; others were loyal to a distant king. Period etchings and original drawings illustrate the biographical sketches in each chapter. Some, of the featured women, for example First Lady Abigail Adams and religious dissident Anne Hutchinson, are well-known historical figures. Other women featured in the book are comparatively obsure, yet their dramatic stories say much about the unsung courage of women in early American history. The Wampanoag chief Weetamoo of New England led her tribe in battle against encroaching white settlers. Southern plantation owner Eliza Pinckney embraced the profession of botany -- while operating three plantations -- and domesticated new breeds of plants. Pirate Anne Bonney cast aside her background and sailed the high seas. Slave Elizabeth Freeman took on the institution of slavery in the courts -- and won. And two frontier heroines of the western Virginia frontier -- Mary Ingles and Anne Bailey -- had dramatic escapades. Furbee also is the author of Women of the American Revolution, Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles, and the forthcoming: Wild Rose: The Story of Nancy Ward and the Cherokee Nation, Anne Bailey: Frontier Scout, and Outrageous Women of the American Frontier. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she is a clinical instructor and public-relations specialist at the West Virginia University School of Journalism. Mary Rodd Furbee, WVU Clinical Instructor/Author 112 Martin Hall, School of Journalism West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 1-304-293-3505, ext. 5403 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html