Hermine Jahns

Hermine Dudley (née Jahns; born 1893) was an American woman who, in 1909 at age 16, accompanied Alice Huyler Ramsey when she became the first woman to drive across the United States. She later married Pendleton Dudley and was the mother of the choreographer Jane Dudley.

The 1995 juvenile historical fiction book Coast to Coast with Alice is told in her voice.

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