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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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Colony of New York. Engeltje, 1755-1756
- A colonial girl
- The spirit of riots, 1766
- The bewilderment of liberty: or, a political education
- Part 2: War for independence. The general's daughter, 1775
- Loyalties and petty treasons
- The breach of the Fortress of Ticonderoga, 1777
- Join or die
- The maiden voyage of the Angelica
- Independency and happiness, 1778-1779
- A change of situation, 1780-1781
- Home front
- Esprit de corps
- The long road from Yorktown, 1781-1783
- Part 3: American abroad. Siècle des lumiéres / The age of enlightenment, 1783
- Social fabric
- A separate peace, 1784-1785
- A "charming coterie," 1786-1787
- Constitutional Convention, Paris, 1788
- Summer in New York, 1789
- Head full of politicks, 1790-1792
- The house on Sackville Street, 1793-1796
- Part 4: The new "United States". The fair American, 1796-1799
- Mother/country
- Purchase, 1802-1804
- Hair triggers, 1804
- "The country of Angelica".
