| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Influences -- The forest -- John Wayles -- The young widow -- Thomas Jefferson -- True love -- Marriage -- Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson -- Slavery and domestic life -- Patsy and Polly -- Death -- The governor's palace -- War -- Mistress of Monticello -- A promise -- Suicide -- Paris -- Epilogue: John Wayles and Betty Hemings. |
| Summary |
Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson's greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young ago of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources--including family letters, documents, and the handwritten notes left by Jefferson's famed biographer, Dumas Malone--William G. Hyland Jr. captures the charm, sophistication, and grace, as well as a profound sense of history, of this little-known and elusive figure, who until now, has been a mere footnote to the story of America's founding. Hyland brings us a conflicted and honest Martha Jefferson, who endured the Revolution as valiantly as some men--defending her very doorstep from raiding British troops--and presided over the domestic life of the Jefferson's "little mountain," Monticello, during her husband's long absences and historic rise to power. A revealing and insightful look at an often overlooked American woman, this book provides a unique and previously unexplored understanding of America's Revolutionary Era, and the men and women upon whose bravery, talent, and resolve our nation was founded |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jefferson, Martha, 1748-1782.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
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Jefferson, Martha, 1748-1782 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjd8RjMGkgfpxHtRvC84q |
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcBWPvgjjmxMJKRKXH3cP |
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Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Governors' spouses -- Virginia -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Governors' spouses |
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Presidents' spouses |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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Virginia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdh4WqHgwWkJJ4b3FGJXd |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martha Jefferson. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 9781442239838 (DLC) 2014021736 |
| ISBN |
9781442239845 (ebook) |
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1442239840 |
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9781442239838 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1442239832 |
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