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Month: May 2015

Martha Washington: The First First Lady

Posted on 5 May 201523 December 2025 by The Historical Notionist

The following is a review of the book Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days  written by Geraldine Brooks and published in the year 1900. This text was written as part of audio visual presentation featuring Martha Washington for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Dames and Daughters is a book of nine chapters profiling nine different…

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