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

"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. ...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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 ...

“Courageous First Ladies Who Changed the World.” By Heidi Poelman (Author) Giovana Medeiros (Illustrator).  ISBN:  978-1-64170-249-2. Copyright 202...

“Abigail and John” By David Bruce Smith (Author) and Clarice Smith (Illustrator). ISBN:  978-1-9484-96025. Copyright 2019. Hardcover 48 pages. From...

“Anna Strong: A Spy During the American Revolution.” By Sarah Glenn Marsh. ISBN:  978-1-4197-3419-9. Copyright 2020. Hardcover 40 pages. The thrill...