sentences:  An 1861 "Raleigh Register" serial by Mary Mason employs the premise of Virginia being magically transformed into a white doe.The same concept was used more famously in "The White Doe", a 1901 poem by Sallie Southall Cotten.The popularity of the Lost Colony and Virginia Dare in the 19th and early 20th centuries coincided with American controversies about rising numbers of Catholic and non-British immigrants, as well as the treatment of African Americans and Native Americans.