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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox

1829–1905

Born into the extended Jackson family and remembered as the first baby born in the White House, she turned personal history into warm, vivid memoir. Her best-known work revisits Christmas celebrations in Washington, Prussia, and Texas through the eyes of someone who lived close to major 19th-century figures and events.

1 Audiobook

Christmas under three flags : Being memories of holiday festivities in the White House with "Old Hickory," in the palace of H. R. H. Prince of Prussia, afterwards Emperor William I., and at the Alamo with the Alcalde's daughter

Christmas under three flags : Being memories of holiday festivities in the White House with "Old Hickory," in the palace of H. R. H. Prince of Prussia, afterwards Emperor William I., and at the Alamo with the Alcalde's daughter

by Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox

About the author

Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox (1829–1905) was an American memoirist with close ties to the household of President Andrew Jackson. She was the daughter of Andrew Jackson Donelson and Emily Tennessee Donelson, and later married John A. Wilcox.

She is best known for Christmas Under Three Flags, a short recollection built around holiday memories in three striking settings: the White House during Jackson's presidency, the court of the Prince of Prussia, and Texas. The appeal of her writing is its personal, eyewitness quality—less a formal history than a family remembrance shaped by travel, politics, and domestic life.

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