Martha Saxton is the author of Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America and biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, among other works. She received a PhD from Columbia University before joining the faculty at Amherst College, where she taught history and women's studies for twenty years.
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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. ... SEE MORE