Before she was the famous hostess of Washington, Dolley Madison was Dorothy Payne, raised among Quakers in Virginia and Philadelphia. Barnard follows her early years, her first marriage and widowhood in the yellow-fever epidemic, her marriage to James Madison and her later life, quoting family letters along the way.
A short, affectionate 1909 portrait that explains how a plain Quaker upbringing shaped a celebrated First Lady. Download the free EPUB.