Ebook: The widow Washington: the life of Mary Washington
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical, Families, Mothers of presidents, Mothers of presidents--United States, Slaveholders, Slaveholders--Virginia, Widows, Widows--United States, History, Biography, Biographies, Washington Mary Ball -- 1708-1789, Washington George -- 1732-1799 -- Family, Mothers of presidents -- United States -- Biography, Widows -- United States -- Biography, Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Biography, Virginia -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600-1775, United States -- History -- Colonial p
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Farrar
- City: United States;Virginia
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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"--;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.
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