List of Internal Pictures
Preface
Part I:
DEFIANT BRIDES
Chapter 1: “The Handsomest Woman in
America”
Chapter 2: “The Best and Tenderest of Friends”
Chapter 3: “The Delight, and Comfort of her Adoring General”
Chapter 4: “Our Sweetest Hopes Embittered by
Disappointment”
Chapter 5: “Fortitude Under Stress”
PART II: TENDER WIVES
Chapter 6: “ As Good and innocent as an
Angel”
Chapter 7: “A Momentary
Pang”
Chapter 8: “Haste Happy Time When We Shall Be No More
Separate”
Chapter 9: “Yet We Wade On”
Chapter 10: “ My Regret at this Cruel, Dreadful
Separation”
PART III: SHADOW SISTERS
Chapter 11: “Illusive Bubbles”
Chapter 12: “ An Irresistible but Invisible Force”
Chapter 13: “ I Do Not Suffer My Spirits to Overcome Me”
Chapter 14: The Brides’s Legacies
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CREDITS
Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author
specializing in women’s and social history. She has appeared on
national television and NPR and has written for the New York
Times, among other publications. Stuart is a board member of the
Women Writing Women’s Lives Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center
and executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.
Visit her on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/NancyRubinStuart
or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/redancer1
“An ingenious means of bringing new life to the oldest story in our
nation’s past: the American Revolution from the perspective of the
young and clear-sighted wives of generals Benedict Arnold and Henry
Knox. Tracing the parallel lives of two couples with conflicting
loyalties, Nancy Rubin Stuart achieves a you-are-there
verisimilitude in Defiant Brides that is rare and not to be
missed.”
—Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters and Margaret
Fuller
“In this lively double-biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals the
resilient lives of a leading patriot and a notorious Loyalist: both
of them women.
Lucy Flucker Knox and Peggy Shippen Arnold deftly performed the
parlor politics that helped to shape the American Revolution in
surprising ways.”
—Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812
“Written with verve and compassion, Nancy Rubin Stuart’s portrait
of two extraordinary marriages of the American Revolution offers a
valuable and moving reminder that even in the most dramatic of
public events, private passions prevailed and participants
remained, first and foremost, husbands and wives.”
—Marla R. Miller, author of Betsy Ross and the Making of
America
“A captivating look at two marriages, marked by bold rebellion and
fierce loyalty. The wives of traitor Benedict Arnold and
Revolutionary hero Henry Knox never met, and died an ocean apart,
but Stuart’s story of their marriages, full of love, passion,
betrayal, and disappointments, reads like a Hollywood
script.”
—Betty Boyd Caroli, author of First Ladies
"An effortless read and a fresh perspective on the American
Revolution.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Stuart… draws on her long experience writing about women and
social history to show that strong women have always driven their
husbands to perform prominent actions, both good and bad.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"With the seemingly endless parade of books devoted to both
founding fathers and revolutionary rascals, it’s nice to see some
attention paid to the fervor with which some remarkable women
navigated the romantic, political, and wartime challenges of the
era.”
—Booklist
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