She was tiny, and plump, and merry, and a skilled horsewoman before she was sixteen.

She was a belle at Williamsburg and sought after by many beaux, and a bride at eighteen.

She was a widow and the mother of two small children at twenty-six.

She was courted and won by a handsome young officer in the Colonial Army and her wedding was the social event of Tidewater Virginia, before she was twenty-eight.

Truly, hers was a thrilling and dramatic life whose climax was reached when, as Mrs. George Washington, little Martha, daughter of Virginia, became the First Lady of the Land.

From the dust jacket