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by Barbara Hambly


  Sukey—Dolley’s enslaved maidservant.

  John Todd, Jr. 1765–1793—Philadelphia lawyer and Quaker, first husband of Dolley Madison.

  Payne Todd 1792–1852—Dolley Madison’s aptly named oldest son by John Todd: handsome, charming, much beloved, an alcoholic and a gambler.

  Willie Todd 1793—Dolley Madison’s second child by John Todd, born during the yellow fever epidemic and died within a few weeks, on the same day as her husband.

  James Todd—John Todd’s brother, who seems to have tried to push Dolley out of some or all of her inheritance from her husband and father-in-law. He eventually embezzled three thousand dollars from a Philadelphia bank and ran off to Georgia, never to be heard from again.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  It is of course impossible to list all the books (to say nothing of Internet sites) that went into the making of Patriot Hearts over the two-plus years of research, writing, rewriting, and editing. As a historian, one constantly picks up bits and pieces of information about how people lived—cooking, laundry, dances, what one did and didn’t do in company—and this information, some of it acquired decades ago, is virtually impossible to trace down. Similarly, a good deal of research is non-written: visits to Monticello and Mount Vernon and Williamsburg to see how far it actually is from the house to the river, the marvelous re-creations of slave quarters and kitchens, the invaluable expertise of docents and reenactors to whom the eighteenth century is as real as the twenty-first (and makes a good deal more sense). (My special thanks to Jefferson’s law teacher George Wythe, and to Williamsburg magnate Robert Carter, for taking the time to chat with me in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg one afternoon.)

  This is a partial list of the books I found most useful in the writing of Patriot Hearts. I’ve arranged them by lady, but there was, of course, considerable overlap. Any or all of these titles can probably be acquired over the Internet.

  MARTHA

  Bryan, Helen. Martha Washington, First Lady of Liberty. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

  Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South. New York: Pantheon, 1982.

  Kitman, Marvin. George Washington’s Expense Account. New York: Grove Press, 1970.

  Lewis, Nelly Custis and Patricia Brady Schmit (ed.). Nelly Custis Lewis’s Housekeeping Book. Historic New Orleans Collection, 1982.

  George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Official Guidebook. New York: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.

  Schwarz, Philip (ed.). Slavery at the Home of George Washington. New York: Mt. Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2001.

  Thane, Elswyth. Washington’s Lady. Philadelphia, PA: Curtis, 1954.

  Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

  ABIGAIL

  Adams, Abigail, and Charles Francis Adams (ed.). The Letters of Mrs. Adams, Wife of John Adams. Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1848.

  Adams, John and Abigail, and Frank Shuffleton (ed.). The Letters of John and Abigail Adams. New York: Penguin Classics, 2004.

  Cappon, Lester (ed.). The Adams-Jefferson Letters. University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

  Forbes, Esther. Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.

  Levin, Phyllis. Abigail Adams, A Biography. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2001.

  McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

  Nagel, Paul. The Adams Women. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

  Withey, Lynne. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

  SALLY

  Bernier, Olivier. Pleasure and Privilege. New York: Doubleday, 1981.

  Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate Biography. New York: Norton, 1974.

  Burstein, Andrew. Jefferson’s Secrets. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

  Crawford, Alan. Unwise Passions. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

  Erickson, Carolly. To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette. New York: Robson Books, 1992.

  Hall, Gordon. Mr. Jefferson’s Ladies. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.

  Jefferson, Thomas, and Edwin Morris Betts (ed.). Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1999.

  Jefferson, Thomas, and Edwin Morris Betts (ed.). Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1999.

  Kierner, Cynthia. Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.

  Kimball, Marie. Jefferson, the Scene of Europe, 1784–1789. New York: Coward, McCann, 1950.

  Mercier, Louis Sebastien, and Jean-Claud Bonnet (ed.). Tableau de Paris. Mercure de France, 1994.

  Poisson, Michel. Paris, Buildings and Monuments. New York: Harry Abrams, 1999.

  Randall, Willard. Thomas Jefferson, A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

  Robiquet, Jean. Daily Life in the French Revolution. New York: MacMillan, 1965.

  Shackelford, George. Thomas Jefferson’s Travels in Europe 1784–1789. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

  Stein, Susan. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: Harry Abrams, 1993.

  DOLLEY

  Allgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics. University of Virginia, 2000.

  Côté, Richard. Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison. Mt. Pleasant, SC: Corinthian Books, 2005.

  Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. University Press of Virginia, 1990.

  Madison, Dolley, and David Mattern and Holly Shulman (eds.). Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison. University of Virginia Press, 2003.

  Pitch, Anthony. The Burning of Washington. Naval Institute Press, 1998.

  Smith, Margaret Bayard, and Gaillard Hunt (ed.). The First Forty Years of Washington Society. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1906.

  ALSO:

  Bernier, Olivier. The World in 1800. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

  Boatner, Mark. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1966.

  Garvan, Beatrice. Federal Philadelphia. Philadelphia Museum of Art and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

  Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers. New York: William Morrow, 2004.

  Seale, William. The President’s House. White House Historical Association, 1986.

  Unger, Harlow. The French War Against America. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

  Much tiny detail about the eighteenth century I gleaned from the various volumes of Muzzleloader Magazine’s The Book of Buckskinning, edited by William Schurlock.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  BARBARA HAMBLY is the author of The Emancipator’s Wife, a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of Fever Season, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and seven acclaimed historical novels.

  Also by Barbara Hambly

  THE EMANCIPATOR’S WIFE

  A FREE MAN OF COLOR

  FEVER SEASON

  GRAVEYARD DUST

  SOLD DOWN THE RIVER

  DIE UPON A KISS

  WET GRAVE

  DAYS OF THE DEAD

  DEAD WATER

  PATRIOT HEARTS

  A Bantam Book / February 2007

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  Copyright © 2007 by Barbara Hambly

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hambly, Barbara.

  Patriot hearts : a novel of the founding mothers / Barbara Hambly.

  p. cm.

  1. Washington, Martha, 1731–1802—Fiction. 2. Adams, Abigail, 1744–1818—Fiction. 3. Hemings, Sally—Fiction. 4. Madison, Dolley, 1768–1849—Fiction. 5. Women—United States—Biography—Fiction
. 6. Women in politics—United States—History—18th century—Fiction. 7. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Fiction.

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  PS3558.A4215P38 2007

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