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The Long Roll by Mary Johnston6/19/2023 Johnston later described the event in a short article entitled "Royalty on an Outing" published in the weekly Fincastle Herald. While there she saw Queen Victoria arrive at a resort in Savoy. In 1890 Johnston accompanied her father on the first of several extended trips to Europe. Johnston also took pride in the role her family had played in Virginia since the eighteenth century. She developed a deep reverence for Virginia's landscape and history. Johnston's only formal education consisted of about three months in an elite preparatory school for girls in Atlanta in 1887. She read widely in literature, history, mysticism, the sciences, and poetry throughout her life. After her mother died in 1889 Johnston acted as her father's companion and as surrogate mother for her younger brothers and sisters.Ī shy and frail girl, Johnston spent much of her childhood reading. During his business career he moved the family from Buchanan to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1886, to New York in 1892, back to Birmingham in 1896, and then to Richmond, Virginia, in 1902. Her father was a lawyer, one-term member of the Virginia House of Delegates, last president of the James River and Kanawha Company, and a former Confederate artillery officer who later served as president of the Georgia Pacific Railway Company. Mary Johnston (21 November 1870–), writer and woman suffrage activist, was born in the town of Buchanan in Botetourt County, Virginia, and was the daughter of John William Johnston and Elizabeth Dixon Alexander Johnston.
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