Author: University of Mary WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The University of Mary Washington
Author: University of Mary WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Self-study Report of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
Author: Mary Washington College of the University of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Widow Washington
Author: Martha SaxtonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374721335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father 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. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia’s upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband’s properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia’s elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness. Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. George did not have the wealth or freedom to enjoy the indulged adolescence typical of young men among the planter class. Mary’s demanding mothering imbued him with many of the moral and religious principles by which he lived. The two were strikingly similar, though the commanding demeanor, persistence, athleticism, penny-pinching, and irascibility that they shared have served the memory of the country’s father immeasurably better than that of his mother. Martha Saxton’s The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary’s long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son’s satellite.
Self-study Report of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
Author: Mary Washington CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Venues of the University of Mary Washington
Author: University of Mary WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
History of Mary Washington College; 1908-1972
Author: Edward AlveyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Honor System at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
Author: Mary Washington College of the University of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Student government
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Bulletin, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, January, 1944; 30, Iss. 1
Author: University of Mary WashingtonPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014726858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
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Life After Mary Washington
Author: University of Mary WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Cats Who Like Bats
Author: Helen E DhuePublisher: Thecatswholikebats
ISBN: 9781087888378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Once on an island there lived a group of cats who got along fairly well. The cats on the island were not a fan of bats. One night the cats on the island get an unexpected visitor. The bat who lands on the island helps the cats expand their world-view. Together they create a community where all animals are accepted and can celebrate their differences.