Virginia Moore was a poet, biographer, and scholar. She is perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.” In it, she combines personal observations on Virginia’s topography and climate with short biographical sketches of Virginians such as Powhatan, Mary Ball, and Thomas Jefferson; anecdotes on the American Civil War (1861–1865); and reflections on the state’s history, food, and literature. The result is a characterization of Virginia and its citizens as intensely “individualist.”
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