Patricia Brady has a PhD in history from Tulane University and served for twenty years as director of publications at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Her books include George Washington's Beautiful Nell. She is the recipient of a Mellon fellowship.
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With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attr... SEE MORE