Women's History Books

Women in the American Revolution – Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World edited by Barbara B. Oberg. ISBN 978-0-8139-4259-9. Copyright 2019. Har...

“The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington.” By Martha Saxton. ISBN: 978-0-8090-9701-2. Copyright 2019. Hardcover with 384 pages. This book...

By Patricia Brady. ISBN 978-0-14-303713-2. Copyright 2005. Softcover with 276 pages including 18 photographs. Patricia Brady's meticulously researc...

"Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. ISBN 9781501126413. Copyright 2017...

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van Cleve. George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away. ISBN 978-1-5344-1617-8. ...

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. By Carol Berkin. ISBN 978-1-4000-7532-4. Copyright 2005. Softcover with 19...

By Mary V. Thompson, Mount Vernon's Research Historian. ISBN 978-1-944038-24-3. Copyright 2017. Hardcover with 28 pages. Martha Washington, the wor...

"Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves" by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-14755-0. Copyright 2017. Hardcover with 420 pages...

By Candice Ransom with illustrations by Karen Ritz. ISBN 0-87614-107-6. Copyright 2003. Softcover with 48 pages.     Martha Dandridge Custis was tw...

By Mary Higgins Clark. ISBN 0-931917-40-9.  Copyright 1968, 2002 by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Copyright renewed 1996. Hardcover with 22...

By Helen Bryan. ISBN 0-471-15892-5. Copyright 2002. Hardcover with 417 pages. Meet one of the best known and least understood figures of the Americ...

By Deborah Gray White. ISBN 978-0-393-31481-6. Copyright 1999, 1985. Softcover with 256 pages. Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism...

Loves, Lies, and Tears: The Lives of America's First Ladies, Volume 2, Ellen Wilson to Jacqueline Kennedy, 1913-1963. By Jacqueline Berger. ISBN: 9...

Loves, Lies, and Tears: The Lives of America's First Ladies, Volume 1, Martha Washington to Helen Taft, 1789-1913. By Jacqueline Berger. ISBN: 978-...

By Scott E. Casper. ISBN-13:978-0-8090-8415-9. Copyright 2008. Hardcover with 286 pages including notes, index, and 16 black and white illustrated ...

By Cokie Roberts. ISBN 0-06-009026-X. Softcover with 359 pages including notes and index. Copyright 2004.   Cokie Roberts returns with Founding Mot...

Mary Ball Washington – The untold story of George Washington’s mother by Craig Shirley. ISBN 978-0-06-245651-9. Copyright 2019. Hardcover 368 pages...

“The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia.” By Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne, and Barbara C. Batson.  ISBN:  978-1-4671-4419-3. Copyright 2...