HELLO, DOLLEY! Dolley Madison was portly, she was over-the-top, so why shouldn’t a book about her -- and the advance for it -- be the same? Catherine Allgor, an assistant professor of history at the ...
In this elegant biography, award-winning historian Allgor (Parlor Politics) makes the case that not only was Dolley Madison incredibly popular with the American people—"Everybody loves Mrs. Madison" ...
We know the faces of most of the principals of America’s founding era only in the rich, vaguely indistinct oils of a Gilbert Stuart portrait. Not Dolley Madison’s. Though she, too, was painted by ...
Dolley Payne is born in the Quaker community of New Garden (now part of Greensboro), North Carolina to parents John Payne and Mary Coles Payne. Dolley’s father, John Payne, liberates his slaves and ...
She looked like royalty, or so thought many guests at the sight of Dolley Madison in her velvet inaugural gown and velvet and white satin turban with towering bird-of-paradise feathers. In full naval ...
Dolley Payne is born in the Quaker community of New Garden (now part of Greensboro), North Carolina to parents John Payne and Mary Coles Payne. Dolley’s father, John Payne, liberates his slaves and ...
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