About the Author

Margaret Pickett, or Peggy as she prefers to be called, is a graduate of the University of Maryland and a former teacher who spent 20 years working in museum education in Virginia's historic triangle-Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. In 1999 she became an independent Living History Interpreter researching and developing documented programs based on the lives of prominent 17th and 18th century Virginia women. After moving to South Carolina in 2010 she has added three 18th century South Carolina women-Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Dorothy Sinkler Richardson, and Rebecca Motte-to her repertoire.