Learn More – Rebecca Latimer Felton
LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters : Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Found in the Main collection at the Georgia Historical Society (www.georgiahistory.com)
A. Louise Staman, Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia’s Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States (Macon, Ga.: Tiger Iron Press, 2006).
John E. Talmadge, Rebecca Latimer Felton: Nine Stormy Decades (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960).
LeeAnn Whites, “Rebecca Latimer Felton: The Problem of Protection in the New South,” in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1., ed. Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009).
LeeAnn Whites, “Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Wife’s Farm: The Class and Racial Politics of Gender Reform,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (summer 1992): 354-72.
Georgia Women of Achievement: http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/felton-rebecca-latimer/
Rebecca Latimer Felton, 1835-1930. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth. Atlanta, Ga.: Index Printing Company, c1919. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/felton/menu.html
Rebecca L. Felton Biography, Biographical Directory of the United State Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=F000069
“Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-904&sug=y