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382 Texas, a senator of the United States and of the Confederacy, wrote a book a few years ago entitled "A Southern Girl in '61," which was widely read. This is Mrs. Louise Sophie Wigfall Wright, and she resides in Baltimore. Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson, widow of "Stonewall" Jackson, the distinguished Confederate general author of the "Memoirs" of her husband, was living in Charlotte, North Carolina, until recently. She, too, like all the other ladies mentioned here, has been prominent in the progressive movements along all lines in the New South. In active educational work, in an executive capacity and as teachers many Southern women are conspicuous. Miss Julia S. Tutwiler, the president of the Alabama Normal College, at Livingston, was also an active worker in prison reform. Mainly through her efforts the University of Alabama has been opened to the girls of that state. She is author also of many songs used in Alabama's public schools. Mrs. Elizabeth Buford, of Nashville, Tenn., is the founder and regent of the Buford College, of that city, and has been connected with other educational institutions of the South. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, of Alexandria, Va., is a well-known sociologist, and is president of the Florence Crittenden Mission, in Washington, D. C. Miss Mary Kendrick is at the head of the faculty of Sweet Briar College, in the Virginia town of that name. At Herndon, in that same state, Miss Virginia Castleman is in charge of the music department of the Herndon Seminary, and is the author of many excellent works for young people. The librarian of the Carnegie Library in Nashville, Tennessee, is Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, who has also organized other libraries in the South. Among others in the long list of educators in many fields are Miss Margaret Warner Morley, of Tryon, North Carolina; Miss Florence Rena Sabin and Miss Lida Le Tall, of Baltimore; Miss Myra Geraldine Gross, of Emmitsburg, Maryland; Miss Frances Ninno Green and Miss Eliza Frances Ambrose, of Montgomery, Alabama.