More than Petticoats: Remarkable Georgia Women

This captivating group of fourteen spirited women from the Peach State includes Margaret Mitchell, author of the world's most beloved novel; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who, after a harrowing trip to freedom, returned to Georgia to teach African American children; "Ma" Rainey, known as the "Mother of the Blues"; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts; and Mary Bosomworth, half-Indian, half-white, who profoundly impacted the first colonization of Georgia. Mary Musgrove Bosomworth : Pocahontas of Georgia -- Sarah Freeman Clarke : nineteenth-century artist -- Ellen Craft : runaway slave -- Rebecca Latimer Felton : First female U.S. senator -- Mary Ellen "Nellie" Peters Black : mover and shaker -- Juliette Gordon Low : America's first Girl Scout -- Martha McChesney Berry : miracle lady of the mountains -- Lugenia Burns Hope : social Activist -- Leila Ross Wilburn : pioneer architect -- Gertrude "Ma" Rainey : mother of the Blues -- Lillian Smith : conscience of the South -- Leila Daughtry Denmark : centenarian pediatrician -- Margaret Mitchell : author of the world's favorite novel