For biographers and fans of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Mary Cutts's
memoir of her famous aunt has been indispensable. Because Madison
left behind no account of her life, the common assumption has been
that Cutts's account is the closest we have to Madison's
autobiographical voice. With this new, annotated transcription of
both drafts of the memoir, The Queen of America offers scholars and
general readers the first modern and contextualized version of this
crucial piece of Founding-era biography. An opening essay by the
acclaimed Dolley Madison biographer Catherine Allgor presents the
memoir not only as a source for information on Madison herself, but
also as a prime example of a nineteenth-century woman, Mary Cutts,
making a bid for historical significance. Essays by Holly Shulman,
editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, and Montpelier
research scholar Beth Taylor evaluate the historical uses and
misuses of the document for understanding Dolley's life and supply
background information on Mary, the niece who fashioned Dolley
Madison's life into part of the historical record. The questions
raised by Cutts's memoir are intriguing: Given that most of the
story takes place before Cutts's birth, whose voice are we hearing?
What are we to make of the lies and omissions along the way? What
family secrets is Cutts hiding, and whose are they? With Allgor as
guide, we enter the fascinating world of nineteenth-century history
in the making.
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