Barbara Hambly is the author of The Emancipator’s Wife, a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of Fever Season, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and seven acclaimed historical novels.
“A set of discrete fictionalized portraits designed to give
history's women their due.”–Publishers Weekly
“entertaining.... A charming vision of the founding moms as gal
pals.”—USA Today
“Paired with Founding Mothers, [Patriot Hearts] is a sure bet for a
lively book discussion session.”—Library Journal
Hambly (The Emancipator's Wife) showcases three wives and one concubine who kept the founding fathers happy at home and handled a gauntlet of crises with grace and fortitude. Martha Washington followed George to his Revolutionary War battlefield headquarters, used Southern hospitality to ease the political turf wars that dogged the nascent union and bolstered the charismatic general-turned-president as he united a squabbling nation. Formidable Abigail Adams could dissect the politics of the new republic and shoot the breeze about "Voltaire, Cicero, and Plutarch" with her husband, John, but had to endure long absences from her beloved and her son Charley's early death. When the invading British set fire to the capital in 1814, charming Dolley Madison rescued important cabinet papers. Slave Sally Hemings suffered the jealousies of Patsy, master and lover Thomas Jefferson's daughter. This is less a dramatically tense novel than a set of discrete fictionalized portraits designed to give history's women their due. Though it's likely too slow for fans of Revolutionary War fiction and not steamy enough for historical romance buffs, it'll find a niche among readers of women's fiction. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"A set of discrete fictionalized portraits designed to give
history's women their due."-Publishers Weekly
"entertaining.... A charming vision of the founding moms as gal
pals."-USA Today
"Paired with Founding Mothers, [Patriot
Hearts] is a sure bet for a lively book discussion
session."-Library Journal
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