Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times Book

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Janet Allured 1

Marie Thérèse Coincoin: Cane River Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox Elizabeth Shown Mills 10

The Baroness Pontalba: A Peculiar Drama Christina Vella 30

Marie Laveau: A New Orleans Voudou Priestess Carolyn Morrow Long 54

Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone: The "Agony and Strife" of Civil War Louisiana Mary Farmer-Kaiser 73

Eliza Jane Nicholson: New Orleans Publisher Patricia Brady 94

Kate Chopin: Knowing What It Means to Miss New Orleans Emily Toth 114

Grace King: New Orleans Literary Historian Mary Ann Wilson 137

Louisa Williams Robinson, Her Daughters, and Her Granddaughters: Recognizing the Contributions of Three Generations of Coushatta Women in Louisiana Linda Langley Claude Oubre Jay Precht 155

Clementine Hunter: Self-Taught Louisiana Artist Lee Kogan 175

Dorothy Dix: The World Brought Her Its Secrets Christina Vella 195

True Methodist Women: Reflections on the Community at St. Mark's Ellen Blue 215

Cleoma Breaux Falcon: The Commercialization of Cajun Music Kevin S. Fontenot Ryan Andre Brasseaux 237

Caroline Dormon: Louisiana's Cultural Conservator Dayna Bowker Lee 253

Mary Land: "When I Was Big Enough to Tote a Gun, I Did" Karen Trahan Leathem 270

Rowena Spencer: A Study of Changing Gender Roles in Twentieth-Century Louisiana Medicine Bambi L. Ray Cochran 286

Oretha Castle Haley: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" Shannon Frystak 303

Louisiana Women and Hurricane Katrina: Some Reflections on Women's Responses to the Catastrophe Pamela Tyler 324

List of Contributors 343

Index 347