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Presiding Ladies of the White House containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs

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Presiding Ladies of the White House containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs

by Lila G. A. Woolfall

EN·~51 minutes·31 chapters

Chapters

31 total

EAST ENTRANCE OF EXECUTIVE MANSION

0:02

PRESIDING LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE

0:39

ILLUSTRATIONS

0:59

INTRODUCTION

6:05

Martha Washington

1:01

Abigail Adams

1:01

Martha Jefferson Randolph

1:01

Dorothy Paine Madison

1:00

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

1:01

Louisa Catherine Adams

1:00
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Published 1898 under title: A pocket history of the ladies of the White House ... by Olga Stanley [pseud.]

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Presiding Ladies of the White House containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs

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en

Duration

~51 minutes (49K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

Oct 5, 2017

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Women -- BiographyUnited States -- BiographyWhite House (Washington, D.C.)

About the author

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Lila G. A. Woolfall

b. 1864

Best known for a lively early-20th-century portrait of America’s First Ladies, this American writer brought presidential history closer to everyday readers. Her work blends biography, social detail, and a clear interest in the customs of the White House.

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