Tag: margaret brent
The story of 1600s landowner ‘Gentleman’ Margaret Brent
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Margaret Brent, a woman with strong ties to the geographic region that would become Alexandria, asked for the right...
Out of the Attic: ‘Nation’s first woman lawyer’ lived in Alexandria
Women’s History Month was first celebrated the week of March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Its advocates noted that in 1980, a maximum of...
