Anne Firor Scott (1921–2019)

Author of The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930

About the Author

Anne Firor Scott was born Anne Byrd Firor in Montezuma, Georgia on April 24, 1921. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in political science from Northwestern University. In 1943, she went to Washington for an internship in a congressman's office, show more then took a job the next year with the League of Women Voters. She got married in 1947. She worked on a Ph.D. while raising the couple's three children. She received a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She taught a few American history courses at the University of North Carolina before joining the history department at Duke University in 1961. She stayed for 30 years and served as department chairwoman from 1980 to 1985. She wrote several books including The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 and Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. She received the 2013 National Humanities Medal. She died on February 5, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Anne Firor Scott

The American Woman : Who Was She? (1971) 53 copies

Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History (1991) 49 copies

Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984) 21 copies

One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (1975) 19 copies

Virginia Women: The First 200 Years (The Foundations of America Series) (1988) 17 copies

Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White (2006) 17 copies

Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women (Feminist Issues : Practice, Politics, Theory) (1993) 12 copies, 1 review

Women in American Life: Selected Readings. (1970) 4 copies

The North Carolina Historical Review - July 1991 - Volume LXVII - Number 3 (1991) 3 copies

By Anne Firor Scott - The Southern Lady: 25th Anniv Ed.: 1st (first) Edition (1996) 1 copy

Women in American Life. Selected Readings (1970) 1 copy

Women & Men: Changing Roles Relationships and Perceptions 1 copy

The Southern Lady: A Celebration of Anne Firor Scott - a commemorative re-printing of her 1979 essay "Self Portraits: Three Women" 1 copy

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Associated Works

Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1982) — Contributor, some editions — 360 copies

Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1938) — Introduction, some editions — 160 copies, 1 review

Vein of Iron (1935) — Afterword, some editions — 138 copies, 1 review

Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman (The Norton Library) (1969) — Introduction — 57 copies

The Hard-Boiled Virgin (1926) — Foreword, some editions — 30 copies

Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives: Volume 1 (2003) — Foreword — 11 copies

The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years (2006) — Contributor — 9 copies

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott (2011) — Contributor — 2 copies

Journal of Mormon History - Volume 13 (1986-87) (1987) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1921-04-24
Date of death: 2019-02-06
Gender: female
Education: University of Georgia (AB | 1941)
Northwestern University (MA | 1944)
Radcliffe College (PhD | 1949)
Occupations: professor of history
Organizations: Southern Historical Association ( [1989])
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians (president)
Phi Beta Kappa
Duke University
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Montezuma, Georgia, USA
Places of residence: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Place of death: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Associated Place (for map): North Carolina, USA

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sallylou61 227 reviews

Unheard voices : the first historians of southern women by Anne Firor Scott

Dr. Scott gave a brief biography and evaluation of their careers as historians of "five women who had lived, studied, or worked within a twelve-mile radius of each other in North Carolina" during the late 1920s and 30s (p. 1). These historians are: Virginia Gearhart Gray, Marjorie Mendenhall, Julia Cherry Spruill, Guion Griffis Johnson, and Eleanor Miot Boatwright. Following that chapter, Dr. Scott included an essay on women's history by each of these historians preceded by a brief show more introduction in which she gave a brief background concerning the importance of the essay. Pictures of each historian as a young woman and as a mature woman are included.

This book was published in 1993 so that the comments about current conditions are out-of-date. Still the book is a valuable contribution in women's history. show less

Jun 15, 2017