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Summary:

"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]

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer, 1965- , editor

Boudreau, George W. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Women in George Washington's world (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 — ISBN 9780813947457; LCCN 2022007613)

Subjects:

Washington, George, 1732-1799 — Relations with women

Washington, George, 1732-1799 — Family

Washington, George, 1732-1799 — Friends and associates

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

E312.17 .W66 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780813947457 (electronic bk.)
0813947456 (electronic bk.)
9780813947440 [Invalid]
0813947448 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1302330846

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6801646 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp304085034