Martha Washington An American life
(Book, Large Print)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.

Martha Washington is the invisible woman of American history, surviving in the popular imagination as a kindly frumps and paragon of domestic support. But when George Washington fell in love with her, she was a wealthy and attractive young widow who could take her pick of the Virginia aristocracy. In the course of their marriage, Martha would become an able landlowner, an indomitable patriot, and her husband's counselor and emotional mainstay. With painstaking research and formidable powers of empathy, Patricia Brady's important new biography brings Martha Washington out of the shadows and allows her to take her rightful place in history as the secret weapon of the American Revolution.