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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Saxton, Martha, author.     Subjects     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 period, ca. 1600-1775.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Saxton, Martha, author.       by title:      The widow Washington...         MARC Display

The widow Washington : the life of Mary Washington / Martha Saxton. by Saxton, Martha, author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Subjects 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 period, ca. 1600-1775.   United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. ISBN:  9780809097012 (hardcover) : 080909701X (hardcover) : Description:  xix, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.41092 Washington Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Biography B Washington, Mary Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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