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The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison Hardcover – April 29, 2003

by David B. Mattern (Author), Dolley Madison (Author), Holly C. Shulman (Author)
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From modest Quaker beginnings as the child of financially insecure parents and the wife of a stolid young lawyer to the excitement and challenges of life as the nation’s first First Lady―arguably the most influential role in the American government’s formative years―Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849) led an extraordinary life. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman have culled a particularly rich selection of her letters to illuminate the story of the woman widely credited with setting the standard for successive generations of Washington’s political women. This collection will prove an invaluable resource in current political and historical circles, where the role founding mothers played―both as supportive family members and as crucial political negotiators―is increasingly recognized and studied.

Organized chronologically into five sections reaching from her correspondence as a young adult in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia up to the letters of her widowhood in 1840s Washington, and with a helpful contextualizing introduction to each section, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison provides a long-overdue biographical sketch of one of the early republic’s most fascinating personalities.

The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison was made possible through a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission


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    442 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Virginia Press
  4. Publication date
    April 29, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    081392152X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0813921525
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A fascinating and readable collection that provides ready access to the most important items of Dolley Madison’s correspondence. The result is a volume that gives both the scholar and the general reader an indelible portrait of this significant participant in the shaping of the United States during its early days as a nation.

-- Lewis Gould, author of American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy

The Selected Letters contains historically important material, uniquely available from these editors who are so well qualified to present it. I enthusiastically recommend this volume, both as a complement to James Madison’s papers and as a record of Dolley Madison’s life in its own right.

-- Ralph Ketcham, author of James Madison: A Biography (Virginia)

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A fascinating and readable collection that provides ready access to the most important items of Dolley Madison’s correspondence. The result is a volume that gives both the scholar and the general reader an indelible portrait of this significant participant in the shaping of the United States during its early days as a nation.



The Selected Letters contains historically important material, uniquely available from these editors who are so well qualified to present it. I enthusiastically recommend this volume, both as a complement to James Madison’s papers and as a record of Dolley Madison’s life in its own right.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Virginia Press (April 29, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 442 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 081392152X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813921525
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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Irene Axelrod
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2015
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KyRN
3.0 out of 5 stars Needed Better Editing
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
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I am not a scholar--just a layperson, and I found this book hard to wade through. Dolley Madison was a very interesting person, I'm sure, but the editors could have done a better job of explaining what each one was about in a more concise manner. You have to read through 20 or 30 pages before each series of letters and by the time you get to the actual letters, you have forgotten what the context was. Some of the letters are hard to understand, as they are written in the vernacular of the day. Footnotes at the bottom of the page would have been appreciated. All in all, I was disappointed with this book.
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Richard N. Cote
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterful front door to the life of an extraordinary woman
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2003
Through her poise, tact, charm, and personal heroism, Dolley Payne Madison has long been one of the most-admired women in the early history of the American Republic. In this exquisite sampling of Dolley's letters, both scholars and general readers alike have great reason to rejoice. For years, the devoted University of Virginia team which lovingly collected and painstakingly edited the papers of James Madison also paid equal attention to his soulmate, Dolley. David B. Mattern (Senior Associate Editor of The Papers of James Madison), and Holly C. Shulman (Research Associate Professor, Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia) have provided the portal through which generations of researchers and writers will pass to meet Dolley. The 442-page book provides not only a well-balanced selection of meticulously edited letters to and from Dolley, but also a series of short, factual essays which frame and give context to each period of her life. In addition, a marvelous 24-page biographical directory provides thumbnail biographies of persons mentioned in her letters. I pre-ordered this book the moment I learned of its intended publication, and it now forms a cornerstone for the research on my forthcoming biography of this amazing First Lady, "Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison" (Corinthian Books, September 2004). -Richard N. Cote', author of "Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston" and "Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy."
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