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The widow Washington : the life of Mary Washington / Martha Saxton.
Van Pelt Library E312.19.W35 S38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saxton, Martha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Slaveholders.
- Families.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Virginia.
- History.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Washington, Mary Ball, 1708-1789.
- Washington, Mary Ball.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Family.
- Washington, George.
- Mothers of presidents--United States--Biography.
- Mothers of presidents.
- Widows--United States--Biography.
- Widows.
- Slaveholders--Virginia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young nation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mary Ball Washington : like mother, like son
- A child in the Chesapeake
- A generation of orphans
- Bruising the small spirit
- Mary, her kin, and her books
- Mary Ball, Augustine Washington, and Matthew Hale
- Wife and mother
- People and property at the Ferry Farm
- As sparks fly upward
- The widow Washington
- Single mother
- Mary's stewardship : scraping by
- Midcentury : a wedding, a murder, a family death
- Mary and George's Seven Years War
- Between the wars : kin, consumption, conflict
- The Revolution : a family affair
- The endless Revolution : wartime virtue, wartime woe
- Mary's war ends
- "You must one day fade"
- Epilogue: An uneasy afterlife.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-340) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780809097012
- 080909701X
- OCLC:
- 1081339249
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