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Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha, the Mother and the Wife of George Washington written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Benson John Lossing
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ISBN 13 : 9783337781156
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benson J. Lossing
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497858527
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha written by Benson J. Lossing and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.
Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337597160
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330075029
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha, the Mother and the Wife of George Washington written by Benson John Lossing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mary and Martha, the Mother and the Wife of George Washington So quiet, so unostentatious, so eminently domestic were the lives of the mother and the wife of George Washington that the biographer and the historian have rarely mentioned theirs as distinct from their relations as mother and wife of that illustrious man. For a faithful portraiture of the character and deeds of either of these notable women, the sum of trustworthy materials to be found in memoirs, annals, or records, is very meagre. And yet the lives of these two women were indissolubly associated with the earthly destiny of one of the grandest characters in the world's history: one as his maternal guide in his childhood and youth, and the other as his conjugal companion and counsellor in his manhood and exalted career. From 1848 until late in 1860, I was a frequent visitor at Arlington House, in Virginia, the pleasant seat of the late George Washington Parke Custis. It is situated upon high ground on the right bank of the Potomac River, overlooking the cities of Washington and Georgetown. Mr. Custis was a grandson of Martha Washington, and one of the two foster-children of her husband. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Benson John 1813-1891 Lossing
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371418410
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)
Download or read book MARY & MARTHA THE MOTHER & THE written by Benson John 1813-1891 Lossing and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Martha Saxton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721335
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Widow Washington written by Martha Saxton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s mother, based on archival sources. Her son’s biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia’s upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband’s properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia’s elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness. Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. George did not have the wealth or freedom to enjoy the indulged adolescence typical of young men among the planter class. Mary’s demanding mothering imbued him with many of the moral and religious principles by which he lived. The two were strikingly similar, though the commanding demeanor, persistence, athleticism, penny-pinching, and irascibility that they shared have served the memory of the country’s father immeasurably better than that of his mother. Martha Saxton’s The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary’s long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son’s satellite.
Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795043727
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Mary and Martha written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife written by James Walter and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Shirley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062456539
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Mary Ball Washington written by Craig Shirley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The gifted historian Craig Shirley has written a surprising and important account of an essential figure long shrouded in the mists of time and legend: Mary Ball Washington, the woman who gave us the Father of our country.” — Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and number-one New York Times bestselling author of Destiny and Power, American Lion, and Thomas Jefferson “George Washington: gentleman farmer, revered military general, first American president, Father of our country . . . and son with mother issues? Craig Shirley brings to life America’s first First Family in vivid detail, in this dazzling biography of George’s colorful—and often difficult—mother. This riveting page-turner puts you at the center of one of the greatest Colonial family dramas—and you will see Washington and the forces that made him in a whole new light.” — Monica Crowley, New York Times bestselling author and columnist for the Washington Times “To read this magnificent biography of America’s First Mother is to understand the founding of our great nation from a fresh vantage point. Craig Shirley is at once a first-rate historian and a spellbinding writer. Mary Ball Washington is a major contribution to Colonial and early republic scholarship. Highly recommended!” — Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University, and CNN’s Presidential Historian “Craig Shirley brings the same appetite for fresh facts and original insights he applied to Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt to Mary Ball Washington, the mother—and prime shaper—of George Washington.” — Michael Barone, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute “Craig Shirley has delivered a long-overdue, captivating book about the exceptional mother of the Father of our country.” — Gay Hart Gaines, former Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association “Written with verve, fairness and sympathetic imagination…it fills a long-standing void in our understanding of how George Washington evolved from an ambitious, largely self-educated young provincial who had trouble controlling his temper, into an inspiring, stoically self-disciplined leader of men.” — Washington Times
Author : Patricia Brady
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101118814
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Martha Washington written by Patricia Brady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. 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. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
Author : James Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331177210
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife (Classic Reprint) written by James Walter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife Patriots of every country will welcome with pride and gratification the following exquisite Sonnet from the pen of Francis Bennoch, the loved and gifted friend of Mary Russell Mitford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Longfellow. It has been suggested that the two final lines would serve admirably as an inscription for the Pedestal of the National Monument. Washington. Before thy tomb, great Statesman, I have bowed In humble reverence, knowing well the zeal With which thou struggled for thy people's weal. Struggled and conquered! Never tempest cloud Could stay the lightning of thy heart, nor shroud That quenchless courage which made despots reel, And men, down-trodden, of thy prowess proud! And now I gaze with rapture on thy face So calm and deep in thought, transcending earth!) By Sharples limned, - where dignity, and grace, And force combined to give a Nation birth, With power to speak and liberate the race! Of Freedom's bravest leaders, there are none Whose fame o'ershadows thine, Heroic Washington! Francis Bennoch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memorials of Washington and of Mary, His Mother, and Martha, His Wife, from Letters and Papers of Robert Cary and James Sharples written by James Walter and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Beutler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946514
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book George Washington's Hair written by Keith Beutler and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington’s hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America’s historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity. Between 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington’s hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves. George Washington’s Hair introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin’s body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington’s hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471103617
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Mount Vernon Love Story written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.
Author : Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Mary Ball Washington: The Mother of George Washington and her Times (Illustrated Edition) written by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mothers of famous men survive only in their sons. This is a rule almost as invariable as a law of nature. Whatever the aspirations and energies of the mother, memorable achievement is not for her. No memoir has been written in this country of the women who bore, fostered, and trained our great men. What do we know of the mother of Daniel Webster, or John Adams, or Patrick Henry, or Andrew Jackson, or of the mothers of our Revolutionary generals? This book is dedicated to Mary Ball Washington, the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia and the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Contents: Mary Washington's English Ancestry The Ball Family in Virginia Coat Armor and the Right to bear it Traditions of Mary Ball's Early Life Revelations of an Old Will Mary Ball's Childhood Good Times in Old Virginia Mary Ball's Guardian and her Girlhood Young Men and Maidens of the Old Dominion The Toast of the Gallants of her Day Her Marriage and Early Life Birthplace of George Washington The Cherry Tree and Little Hatchet The Young Widow and her Family Betty Washington, and Weddings in Old Virginia Defeat in War: Success in Love In and Around Fredericksburg Social Characteristics, Manners, and Customs A True Portrait of Mary Washington Noon in the Golden Age Dinners, Dress, Dances, Horse-races The Little Cloud The Storm Mary Washington in the Hour of Peril Old Revolutionary Letters The Battle-ground France in the Revolution "On with the Dance, let Joy be unconfined" Lafayette and our French Allies In Camp and at Mount Vernon Mrs. Adams at the Court of St. James The First Winter at Mount Vernon The President and his Last Visit to his Mother Mary Washington's Will; her Illness and Death Tributes of her Countrymen
