Author:
Bryan, Helen.
Imprint:New York : Wiley, c2002.
Descriptionxiii, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Machine generated contents note: 1 Twenty-Five Miles as the Crow Flies from Williamsburg -- 2 "John Dandridge's Daughter" -- 3 A Young Matron and Her Family -- 4 The Widow Custis -- 5 George Washington, His Family and Friends -- 6 A Twelfth Night Wedding -- 7 Halcyon Days -- 8 Uneasy Times -- 9 Sudden Changes and Milestones -- 10 "Mrs. Washington, a Warm Loyalist" -- 11 "I Doe My Dear Sister Most Religiously Wish Thare Was -- an End to the Matter" -- 12 "General Washington's Lady, an Example -- of Persistent Industry" -- 13 "A Dreary Kind of Place" -- 14 Middlebrook and Morristown -- 15 "We Look Upon the Americans as Already at Our Feet" -- 16 A Long Time Going Home -- 17 "Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree" -- 18 "The General Is Gone to New York" -- 19 "A State Prisoner" -- 20 Philadelphia -- 21 "Duty and Inclination" -- 22 Transitions -- 23 "Once More, Under Our Own Vine and Fig Tree" -- 24 "No More Trials to Pass Through" -- Epilogue -- A Culinary Lagniappe: Recipes from Martha Washington's -- Books of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-407) and index.
