Angelica for love and country in a time of revolution
Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her transatlantic n...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Part 1: |t Colony of New York. |t Engeltje, 1755-1756 -- |t A colonial girl -- |t The spirit of riots, 1766 -- |t The bewilderment of liberty: or, a political education -- |g Part 2: |t War for independence. |t The general's daughter, 1775 -- |t Loyalties and petty treasons -- |t The breach of the Fortress of Ticonderoga, 1777 -- |t Join or die -- |t The maiden voyage of the Angelica -- |t Independency and happiness, 1778-1779 -- |t A change of situation, 1780-1781 -- |t Home front -- |t Esprit de corps -- |t The long road from Yorktown, 1781-1783 -- |g Part 3: |t American abroad. |t Siècle des lumiéres / The age of enlightenment, 1783 -- |t Social fabric -- |t A separate peace, 1784-1785 -- |t A "charming coterie," 1786-1787 -- |t Constitutional Convention, Paris, 1788 -- |t Summer in New York, 1789 -- |t Head full of politicks, 1790-1792 -- |t The house on Sackville Street, 1793-1796 -- |g Part 4: |t The new "United States". |t The fair American, 1796-1799 -- |t Mother/country -- |t Purchase, 1802-1804 -- |t Hair triggers, 1804 -- |t "The country of Angelica". |
| 520 | |a Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed. A woman of great influence in a time of influential women (Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette were contemporaries), Angelica was at the red-hot center of American history at its birth: in Boston, when General Burgoyne surrendered to the revolutionaries; in Newport, receiving French troops under the command of her soon-to-be dear friend Marquis de Lafayette; in Yorktown, just after the decisive battle; in Paris and London, helping to determine the standing of the new nation on the world stage. She was born as Engeltje, a Dutch-speaking, slave-owning colonial girl who witnessed the Stamp Act riots in the Royal British Province of New York. She came of age under English rule as Angelica, the eldest daughter of the most important family on the northern part of Hudson's River, raised to be a domestic diplomat responsible for hosting indigenous chiefs and enemy British generals at dinner. She was Madame Church, wife of a privateer turned merchant banker, whose London house was a refuge for veterans of the American war fleeing the guillotine in France. Across nationalities, languages, and cultures, across the divides of war, grievance, and geography, Angelica wove a web of soft-power connections that spanned the War for Independence, the post-war years of tenuous peace, and the turbulent politics and rival ideologies that threatened to tear apart the nascent United States. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-303) and index. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Church, Angelica Schuyler, |d 1756-1815. |
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |y 1783-1815. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Upper class |z United States |x Social life and customs |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Dutch Americans |v Biography. | |
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