The widow Washington

the life of Mary Washington

The widow Washington

the life of Mary Washington
Martha Saxton
Book - 2019

"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"--

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37413317782110 Доступно Non-fiction B WASHINGTO SAXTON
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Главный автор: Saxton, Martha (Автор)
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Язык:English
Опубликовано: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Редактирование:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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 -- Mid-century : 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. 
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