Elizabeth Avery Meriwether

Social Reformer, Political Activist

Berkeley, Kathleen Christine. "Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, 'An Advocate for Her Sex': Feminism and Conservatism in the Post-Civil War South." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 43 (Winter 1984): 390-406.

Cook, Emily Walker. "Elizabeth Avery Meriwether: Moral Mother as Social Reformer." Master's thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1991.

Meriwether, Elizabeth Avery. Recollections of 92 Years, 1824-1916. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1958.


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