Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 128
went on, look at the mid-century portrait of MarthaWashington (when she was the Widow Custis). Seealso the portrait of a Virginia dame, ElizabethCarter, who married the third William Byrd, anddied when twenty-eight years old, in 1760. Herplump, complacent face displays the apple-cheeks anddouble… … Mary Burnet Browne. Mid-century Modes 467 dark head. She had rather a hard time in Hfe inspite of her careless eyes and satisfied air, for shegrieved bitterly for the little sons who were sentaway from her to school in England ; and she had amother-in-law ; — a mother-in-law who wrote sharplyof…
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