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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Buckhannon teenager Sirene Bunten kept a diary during this war.
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In recent years, have the birth rates of women in West Virginia been increasing, decreasing, or staying about the same?
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For 75 years, Catholic nuns ran the DeSales Heights boarding school for women in this city before closing it to open the state's first Montessori school.
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This former state poet laureate published the book Six O'clock Mine Report.
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She is the third woman from West Virginia to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Marshall College (now University) President James E. Morrow was the grandfather of this famous person.
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What is Eldora Bolyard Nuzum best remembered as.
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Who made up the other half of the popular country, and later gospel, music duo with Lynn Davis?
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She is the only West Virginian named on a plaque erected in 1930 in Washington D.C. by the League of Women Voters bearing the names of suffrage leaders.
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