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03191aam a22006018i 4500 001 A90BC0CA918E11E9A17BDD4B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 181206t20192019nyuaf b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2018056295 020 $a 080909701X 020 $a 9780809097012 035 $a (OCoLC)1081339249 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d GK8 $d IUO $d KSA $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-va $a n-us-va 050 00 $a E312.19.W35 $b S38 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Saxton, Martha, $e author. 245 14 $a The widow Washington : $b the life of Mary Washington / $c Martha Saxton. 246 3 $a Life of Mary Washington 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2019. 300 $a xix, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young nation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Mary Ball Washington : like mother, like son -- A child in the Chesapeake -- A generation of orphans -- Bruising the small spirit -- Mary, her kin, and her books -- Mary Ball, Augustine Washington, and Matthew Hale -- Wife and mother -- People and property at the Ferry Farm -- As sparks fly upward -- The widow Washington -- Single mother -- Mary's stewardship : scraping by -- Midcentury : a wedding, a murder, a family death -- Mary and George's Seven Years War -- Between the wars : kin, consumption, conflict -- The Revolution : a family affair -- The endless Revolution : wartime virtue, wartime woe -- Mary's war ends -- "You must one day fade" -- Epilogue: An uneasy afterlife. 600 10 $a Washington, Mary Ball, $d 1708-1789. 600 10 $a Washington, George, $d 1732-1799 $x Family. 650 0 $a Mothers of presidents $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Widows $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Slaveholders $z Virginia $v Biography. 651 0 $a Virginia $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 14 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710044718.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015126.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305015703.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018013235.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013807.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20221102014450.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053439.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010312.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20191204101227.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20191029010143.0 952 $l XHPD657 $d 20190918024355.0 952 $l KXPA353 $d 20190820014018.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806075939.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190618015109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A90BC0CA918E11E9A17BDD4B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search