Columbia's Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia
About the author: Gloria Seaman Allen, a former curator and then director of the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington, D.C., has written and lectured extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century textiles and textile workers from the Chesapeake region. In addition to exhibition catalogs and two books, A Maryland Album: Quiltmaking Traditions, 1634-1934 and A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery, 1738-1860, she has written more than thirty-five articles on textiles and decorative arts for such publications as The Magazine Antiques, Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly, PieceWork, Winterthur Portfolio, and the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. She lives with her partner, two dogs, and two cats on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.