Martha Washington

Biography of Martha Washington for young adults.

Louis F. Cary

Chelsea Juniors

1991

book

eng

Daily life at Mount Vernon

Ann Parks Marshall

Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Ransdell Incorporated

1931

book

eng

"Mansions, Men, Women, and the Creation of Multiple Publics in Eighteenth-Century British North America"

Mount Vernon

The evolution of the many-roomed mansion in colonial British America permitted the creation of multiple public spaces within the house itself. Using the theoretical insights of Jurgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, and Karen Hansen on the nature of the kinds of publics possible in the eighteenth century, this article demonstrates how real as opposed to theoretical publics arose. As outside space and mansions formed a continuum from "public public space" to "private public space," mansions permitted elite men to control "private public space." For elite men mansions provided a social geography wherein the range of alternative publics broadened. However, that process marginalized women by trivializing the ways that heterosocial social space was used and relegating female homosocial space to the mansion's political, economic, intellectual, and psychological periphery. The eighteenth-century mansion provided gendered spaces which facilitated the integration of elite men into local, provincial, and international publics but which simultaneously contributed to a wider segregation of men and women and the exclusion of women from the political, economic, and intellectual world beyond the house. In the nineteenth century these patterns would become legitimized for the middle classes through the ideology of domesticity and the notion of "separate spheres."

Jessica Kross

1999

journal article

eng

Martha Dandridge Custis

Pages: 155 p., {8} leaves of plates
Physical description: 155 p., {8} leaves of plates : ill., 24 cm
Note: Includes index
Subject: Court records--Virginia
Subject: Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject: Virginia--Social life and customs--To 1775
Subject: Virginia--Genealogy

Elmer Thomas Crowson

Southern Historical Press

1981

book

eng

Gender in the American Revolution

Along with Linda Kerber's "Women of the Republic," this book is often seen as revolutionizing the study of women in early America. Unlike Kerber's approach through ideology and intellectual history, Norton's analysis focuses on social history. She argues that the traditional portrayal of pre-revolutionary America as a "golden age" for women was inaccurate, and posits instead that the revolution itself brought about significant and lasting change in the lives of women, especially in their private spheres.

Mary Beth Norton

Cornell University Press

1996

book

eng

"Hospitality, Sociability, and Gender in the Southern Colonies"

social role, colonial women

Cynthia A. Kierner

1996

journal article

eng

Martha Washington as Mistress of the Household

Mary Custis Lee DeButts, ed.

University of North Carolina Press

1984

book

eng

Martha Washington's grandchildren

Patricia Brady

University of South Carolina Press

1991

book

eng

George Washington

Don Higginbotham, ed.

University of Virginia Press

2001

book

eng

George Washington

James Thomas Flexner

Little, Brown

1972

book

eng