The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison de Cutts, Mary - 2012

University of Virginia Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. As New/near fine. Light rubbing to the mylar covered dust jacket else as new. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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Charleston, SC: University of Virginia Press, 2012 2024-06-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Like New. Signed. Singed/inscribed by editor on title-pages; 218 pp., 8vo.: One ownership marking on FFEP, touch of cocking to spine, bright/clean copy. Sharp, complete DJ: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Rare signed and inscribed first edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
For biographers and fans of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Mary Cutts's memoir of her famous aunt has been indispensable. Because Madison left behind no account of her life, the common assumption has been that Cutts's account is the closest we have to Madison's autobiographical voice.
With this new, annotated transcription of both drafts of the memoir, The Queen of America offers scholars and general readers the first modern and contextualized version of this crucial piece of Founding-era biography. An opening essay by the acclaimed Dolley Madison biographer Catherine Allgor presents the memoir not only as a source for information on Madison herself, but also as a prime example of a nineteenth-century woman, Mary Cutts, making a bid for historical significance. Essays by Holly Shulman, editor of… Leer más

Univ of Virginia Pr, 2012. Hardcover. New. annotated edition edition. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. Includes two transcriptions of Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's manuscript as well as a study of Cutts's authorship and women's historical writing in the nineteenth century.