The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington - Martha Saxton

Descriere YEO:

The Widow Washington: The Life - Disponibil la libris.ro

Pe YEO găsești The Widow Washington: The Life de la Martha Saxton, în categoria Biography & Autobiography.

Indiferent de nevoile tale, The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington - Martha Saxton din categoria Biography & Autobiography îți poate aduce un echilibru perfect între calitate și preț, cu avantaje practice și moderne.

Caracteristici și Avantaje ale produsului The Widow Washington: The Life

• Departament: auto-moto-rca
• Ideal pentru iubitorii de mașini și motociclete.
• Conținutul acestui produs te ajută să întreții și să îmbunătățești performanțele vehiculului tău.

Preț: 122.76 Lei

Caracteristicile produsului The Widow Washington: The Life

• Brand: Martha Saxton
• Categoria: Biography & Autobiography
• Magazin: libris.ro
• Ultima actualizare: 18-03-2025 01:35:02

Comandă The Widow Washington: The Life Online, Simplu și Rapid

Prin intermediul platformei YEO, poți comanda The Widow Washington: The Life de la libris.ro rapid și în siguranță. Bucură-te de o experiență de cumpărături online optimizată și descoperă cele mai bune oferte actualizate constant.

Descriere magazin:
An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation\'s father The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington\'s mother, based on archival sources. Her son\'s biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia\'s upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband\'s properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia\'s elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness. Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. George did not have the wealth or freedom to enjoy the indulged adolescence typical of young men among the planter class. Mary\'s demanding mothering imbued him with many of the moral and religious principles by which he lived. The two were strikingly similar, though the commanding demeanor, persistence, athleticism, penny-pinching, and irascibility that they shared have served the memory of the country\'s father immeasurably better than that of his mother. Martha Saxton\'s The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary\'s long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son\'s satellite.