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78 84 97 111 690 | Anne Firor Scott, historian who illuminated lives of Southern women, dies at 97, February 13, 2019


Anne Firor Scott, a scholar who excavated forgotten corners of historical archives to illuminate the misunderstood lives of the women of the American South, an endeavor that helped open the broader discipline of women’s history in the 1970s, died Feb. 5 at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 97.

Her daughter, Rebecca J. Scott, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause.

Dr. Scott, herself a daughter of the South and a professor for three decades at Duke University, was best known for her work “The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930.” The book, published in 1970 amid the surge of second-wave feminism, was widely credited with helping spark a new — and overdue, many scholars later said — avenue of academic inquiry.







Anne Firor Scott  was an American historian, specializing in the history of women and of the South.


 From Anne Firor Scott's death to her birthday is a span of 78 days.

It is also a span of 2 months and 19 days.

Dr. Scott taught at institutions including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining Duke University in 1961. She was a former history department chairwoman and retired in 1991.

On the bottom right hand corner, you will see that it is a span of 11 weeks and 1 day, like 111


Anne Firor Scott dead at the age of 97


Article posted on February 13, 2019, date written 2/13 or 13/2


Anne Firor Scott

In her research, which also explored such topics as the lives of black women and the importance of women’s associations in American history, Dr. Scott pored over diaries, letters and other primary sources that brought her subjects to life. Her findings revealed women far more complex than the porch-sitting plantation belles of popular imagination.

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