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Jane Lancaster is an independent historian, who specializes in women's and African American history with particular reference to Rhode Island. Educated in England, and with a doctorate in history from Brown, she has taught at both Brown and RISD, and prior to that, at the Lincoln School. Among her many awards was a Christa McAuliffe fellowship from the US Department of Education to produce a curriculum on Rhode Island women's history. Her prizewinning biography of Lillan Moller Gilbreth, engineer and mother of the dozen children celebrated in Cheaper by the Dozen, was followed by her well-received history of the Providence Athenaeum, Inquire Within, and an edition of Emily Post's only travel book, By Motor to the Golden Gate. More recently she has been studying Madame Jumel, one of the wealthiest women in nineteenth century New York, whose early years were spent in great poverty in Providence, and even more recently, the fate of Rhode Island's Black Loyalists after the American War for Independence.