Showing posts with label Dolley Madison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dolley Madison. Show all posts

Dolley Madison: Clever, Gay, and Yeasty


Describing Dolley
To mark the 250th birthday of First Lady Dolley Madison, I turned to a 1972 biography by Ethel Stephens Arnett called “Mrs. James Madison: The Incomparable Dolley.”

I love how Arnett opens one chapter with a huge list of “complimentary adjectives” from different books about Madison: