Publicity photography of automobilist Alice Huyler Ramsey with Margate Atwood, Nettie Powell and Hermine Jahns prior to their historic drive across America in summer 1909.

Hermine Dudley (née Jahns; born 1890) was an American woman who, in 1909 at age 19, 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 composer Margaret Purcell and 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 978-1426326974.
  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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