Women's History Books

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington by Martha Saxton – Paperback – Copyright 2020 – ISBN 978-1250619518 An insightful biography of Ma...

Women in George Washington's World  –  Edited by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and George W. Boudreau. ISBN 9780813947440. Copyright 2022. Softcover 264 ...

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution by Mary Sarah Bilder – Hardcover – Copyright 2022 – ISBN 97808...

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

The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America by Julie Flavell - Copyright 2021 - ISBN 97...

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

"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. ...

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...

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

“Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Time of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton.” By Tilar J Mazzeo. ISBN:  978-1-5011-6634-1. Copyright 2019. S...

Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue (Women of Action) by Susan Casey – Paperback, 240 ...

Women Waging War in the American Revolution - edited by Holly A. Mayer. ISBN 9780813948270. Copyright 2022. Hardcover with 296 pages. America’s War...

To be featured in a Mount Vernon Book Talk and Lecture Series on April 13th, 2023. Click here for event details.   Flora Macdonald: "Prett...