Matoaca Gay

Matoaca Gay (1841 - 1915) was an American writer and literary scholar. She was born in Henrico County, Virginia to Edward S. Gay, and Catherine Tazewell Gay. Seventh in a direct line from Pocahontas Matoaka Rebecca Rolfe, for whom she was named, Matoaca was the eldest of six children. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1882, on the advice of her friend Sue Virginia Swearingen, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Field. Society Writer Matoaca Gay wrote a society column under the name of "Bric-a-Brac". Shakespearean Scholar