Affectionately Yours, George Washington
Affectionately Yours, George Washington

Author: Thomas Fleming

Publisher: New Word City

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1612307760

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For many Americans, George Washington is just the face on a dollar bill. This book changes that perception. George Washington, Revolutionary War general, Founding Father, and first president of the United States was a warm and fascinating man. He suffered the agony of adolescent passion, fell in love with his best friend's wife, and married the wealthy widow Martha Custis. He poured out his political and military woes to his brother Jack in the dark days of 1776, and in the midst of a miserable winter camped with his troops in Valley Forge, he wrote a chatty letter to a friend in England. All these incidents are here in Washington's own words. Only through what Washington called his "letters of friendship" can we fully understand this complex man. They show him joking with his favorite Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, advising his younger relatives on love and marriage, writing with emotion to the unobtainable woman he loved, and reconnecting with her in his old age. Selected and edited by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming from the thirty-seven volumes of Washington's collected writings, this book will be a revelation to all.

William and Lucy
William and Lucy

Author: Angela Thirlwell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780300102000

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The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) and Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship - described here for the first time - provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century marriage and on the private lives of eminent Victorians. Sibling of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, William was one of the original Pre-Raphaelite 'Brothers,' a Bohemian, radical author, poet, critic, artist, connoisseur, biographer, historian, and taxman. Lucy, the intense, intellectual daughter of Ford Madox Brown, was an ambitious artist and biographer of Mary Shelley in spite of struggling with tuberculosis for nearly a decade. Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished sources and a wealth of new visual material (including art by William, Lucy, and others of their circle and striking contemporary photographs), the book follows William and Lucy through their separate professional careers, marriage, continental travels, and Lucy’s illness and death. At the crossover between art history, literary criticism, social history, and biography, the book rewrites Pre-Raphaelite history and brings to life two fascinating people who were both of their time and ahead of it.

Major Butler's Legacy
Major Butler's Legacy

Author: Malcolm Bell, Jr.

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2004-12-01

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 0820323950

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Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.

The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two
The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two

Author: Harriette Wilson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13:

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The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two is an autobiography by Harriet Wilson. Wilson was a notorious Regency concubine and lover of Lord Craven at the age of 15. She later had official bonds with the Duke of Wellington and other major politicians of her days.