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.
"The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison" was made
possible through a grant from the National Historical Publications
& Records Commission
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