Chronicles the life of Martha Washington, who married George Washington when she was twenty-seven following the death of her first husband, as she worked by the side of the first president of the U.S. to build a new nation.
A biography of the first First Lady.
Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay.
Candice F. Ransom. With special thanks to Mary V. Thompson , research specialist at Mount Vernon The portrait on page 46 appears with permission from the Washington - Custis - Lee Collection , Washington and Lee University , Lexington ...
A biography stressing the childhood of America's first First Lady.
This volume is an in-depth biography of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.
Supplemented with numerous letters and other communications, vivid portraits of the lives of slaves on Virginia plantations, and first-hand accounts of the glittering social life enjoyed by the elite, Martha Washington is must reading for ...
In many ways Martha Dandridge Custis Washington represented the ideal woman of the new American republic. She was not born of the aristocracy, but she gained the admiration and respect...
Martha Washington
A biography of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington and America's first lady.
Although Martha Washington has been the subject of several popular biographies, her writings, scattered into private hands, archives, and repositories, have never before been collected and published. This book attempts...