Women in George Washington's world / edited by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and George W. Boudreau.
| Other author/creator | Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer, 1965- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Boudreau, George W., editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2022. |
| Copyright Notice | 2022 |
| Description | x, 254 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction / Cynthia Kierner -- The mother of the father : memorializing Mary Washington in antebellum Virginia / Kate Haulman -- "She did not come up to 'Ole Mistis' in Mammy's eyes!" : relationships between the women, enslaved and free, of Mount Vernon / Mary V. Thompson -- Service and sacrifice : Martha Washington / Lynn Price Robbins -- "The tender heart of the chief could not support the scene" : General Washington, Margaret Arnold, and the treason at West Point / Charlene M. Boyer Lewis -- George Washington and Phillis Wheatley : the indispensable man and the poet laureate of the American Revolution / James G. Basker -- Abigail Adams and the president's portrait / Sara Georgini -- "You are welcome to eat at her table" : Elizabeth Willing Powel's world of Philadelphia / Samantha Snyder -- "I had friends among the colored people of the town" : the enslaved women of the president's household and Philadelphia's African American community / George W. Boudreau -- Invalid juggernaut : Ann Pamela Cunningham and her quest to save George Washington's Mount Vernon / Ann Bay Goddin. |
| Abstract | "This volume highlights some of the women Washington knew: women who admired and memorialized him; women who provided him love and solace; women who frustrated him; women who worked for or against him. The essays reveal the lives of a diverse group of women, from plantation mistresses to enslaved workers, loyalists and patriots, poets and socialites, as well as mothers, wives, and sisters. Figures discussed include Mary Ball Washington, Martha Washington, Margaret Arnold, Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Willing Powel, Moll Judge, Ona Judge, Ann Pamela Cunningham, as well as members of the Washington and Custis families and women workers enslaved by them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Women in George Washington's world Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813947457 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2022007612 |
| ISBN | 9780813947440 |
| ISBN | 0813947448 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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