The Daughter of the Blood

Herbert Bouldin Hawes (1872-?) undertook some serious historical research before allowing Virginia Dare -- Daughter of the Blood -- to "go forth from her hospitable dwelling in his house of fancies, into the world of printed pages." Virginia Dare (1587-?) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents into the short-lived Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina. What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. In Dawes' 1930 novel, Virginia is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas. Neil Richard Gaiman (1960-) extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia when she is about twelve and gives her an artifact allows her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.