Feisty First Ladies
Independent Women for Independence Day
Spend the 4th of July With Autumn Stephens and the Wild Women of the White House
What better time to learn the behind-the-scenes details of American history than July 4th. As the United States celebrates the anniversary of its independence, Feisty First Ladies celebrates—and sometimes exposes— the wild lives of the women of the White House.
Here's a juicy tid-bit about the very first of the First Ladies, Martha Washington:
"Reputedly the richest woman in Virginia when she wed George in 1759, Martha, a widow of twenty-seven, reentered the state of matrimony with two small children and a slightly risqué reputation attached. Not known in her pre-George day for demureness or for dignity, she amused herself by riding her horse up and down her uncle's front steps, aggressively pursued her first husban (a wealthy tobacco farmer some twenty years her senior), and as heir to his plantation, harassed various London merchant by letttre, shamelessly demaning an "uncommon Price" for her goods."From the swanky soirees of Dolley Madison to the political aspirations of Hilary Clinton, read about the intruiguing and sometimes outrageous history of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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