Hermine Dudley

Hermine Dudley (née Jahns; born 1893) was an American woman who, in 1909 at age 16, accompanied Alice Huyler Ramsey when she became the first woman to drive across the United States.[1][2][3] She later married Pendleton Dudley and was the mother of the choreographer Jane Dudley.[4]

The 1995 juvenile historical fiction book Coast to Coast with Alice is told in her voice.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Macy, Sue (2017). Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century. National Geographic. p. 44. ISBN 1426326971.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Carolyn (October 23, 2009). "Women take a seat in Transportation Hall of Fame". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Ruben, Marina (June 4, 2009). "Alice Ramsey’s Historic Cross-Country Drive". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ Decennial Record of the Class of 1903. New York: Columbia University. 1914. p. 57.
  5. ↑ "Coast to coast with Alice / by Patricia Rusch Hyatt". kenne.edu. Keene Public Library. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
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