Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
edited by Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf.
ISBN
0271016906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xxiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and indexes.
Summary
"Moore compiled her commonplace book during the American Revolution, carefully selecting works of poetry and prose that she and her friends most enjoyed reading and wanted to remember. Contained are 126 works of prose and poetry by at least sixteen different authors, mostly women....Moore's Book is the richest surviving body of evidence revealing the nature and substance of women's intellectual community in British America" [from the publisher]
The story of president James Buchanan's lost love. He was engaged to be married to Ann Coleman in 1819. She broke off the engagement and told Buchanan she never wanted to see him again. Within a few months she died suddenly. Buchanan never married and kept her portrait in his bedroom until his death.