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The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison

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From modest Quaker beginnings as the child of financially insecure parents and the wife of a stolid young lawyer to the excitement and challenges of life as the nation's first First Lady - arguably the most influential role in the American government's formative years - Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849) led an extraordinary life. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman have culled a particularly rich selection of her letters to illuminate the story of the woman widely credited with setting the standard for successive generations of Washington's political women. This collection will prove an invaluable resource in current political and historical circles, where the role founding mothers played - both as supportive family members and as crucial political negotiators - is increasingly recognized and studied. Organized chronologically into five sections reaching from her correspondence as a young adult in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia up to the letters of her widowhood in 1840s Washington, and with a helpful contextualizing introduction to each section, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison provides a long-overdue biographical sketch of one of the early republic's most fascinating personalities.

Author Biography:

David B. Mattern is Senior Associate Editor of the Papers of James Madison and the editor of James Madison's ""Advice to My Country"" (Virginia). Holly C. Shulman is Research Associate Professor, Studies in Women and Gender, at the University of Virginia.
Release date NZ
April 30th, 2003
Author
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Volume editor David B. Mattern
  • Volume editor Holly C. Shulman
Illustrations
15 b&w illustrations
Pages
480
Dimensions
152x229x35
ISBN-13
9780813921525
Product ID
6788847

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