THE WHITE DOE; The fate of Virginia Dare, an Indian Legend
first edition
1901 · Philadelphia
by COTTEN, Sallie Southall
Philadelphia: Lippincott for the author, 1901. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xx, 89. Illustrated and with one double-page map.TEG. Maroon cloth, stamped in white. Cover little scuffed and soiled, flyleaf cut away, o/w VG. A poem relating the legend regarding Virginia Dare (b. 1587), the first white child of English parents born in America. Cotten was a leader in the North Carolina women's club movement, served as a "lady manager" for the Chicago World's Fair, and from 1898-1906, served as recording or corresponding secretary for the National congress of Mothers (later the Congress of Parents and Teachers). "Both in time and in fact she exemplified the evolution from the Southern lady of the old school to the new woman's leader who performed a vital role in Southern social and political history." NAW I, 388-390. (Inventory #: 30940)