Washington, Martha Born June 2, 1732 (New Kent County, Virginia) Died May 22, 1802 (Mount Vernon, Virginia) First lady The lives of prominent eighteenth-century women were rarely recorded in any detail. Yet women played as vital a role as men in early...

This article is about the first First Lady of the United States. For the article about the comic book character, see Give Me Liberty. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first...

Martha Washington: An American Life * Patricia Brady * New York: Viking, 2005 * xii, 276 pp. * $24.95 cloth; $15.00 paper Martha Washington, Patricia Brady observes, "is both famous as the first First Lady and completely unknown" in part because she destroyed...

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty. By Helen Bryan. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv ], 417. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15892-5.) In this first full-scale biography of Martha Washington published in over forty years, Helen Bryan seeks to replace the...

Linda Leyendecker Gutierrez lives and works a few blocks from the Rio Grande and traces her lineage in two branches _ from one of this Spanish colonial city's oldest families and to Revolutionary War orator Patrick Henry.And she says she has a God-given gift of...

First Lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to "one of America's most beloved first ladies" — Dolley Madison — at the unveiling of a coin in Madison's honor."America's first ladies have guided, comforted and sustained our nation in times of trial and triumph," Mrs. Bush...