LADY BERKELEY WAS A FORMIDABLE COLINIAL FORCE.(LOCAL)

The Virginian Pilot | February 22, 1999 | Copyright

Byline: GEORGE TUCKER

APART from Pocahontas, Lady Frances Berkeley, the strong-willed, thrice-married and childless Colonial dame who ruled the political roost in Virginia from around 1670 until her death in the 1690s, was the Old Dominion's most notable 17th century woman.

Proud, imperious and fiercely partisan, Lady Berkeley was the sworn enemy of anyone who dared to question her own or her three husbands' aristocratic convictions. From the time of her first marriage when she was 18 until her death in her middle 60s, she was in the thick of the Virginia ...

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