This episode explores the wife and daughter of the third President, Thomas Jefferson, who was the first widower to fill the role.

Step back in time to the early Republic via revolutionary Paris to discover how a lack of a presidential spouse highlighted the gendered roles taking shape in the early years of the presidency.

Shownotes:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/martha-wayles-skelton-jefferson/
Review: Dinah Mayo-Bobee, ‘Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello, Her life and Times by Cynthia A. Kierner, West Virginia History, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 2, (Fall 2013) p. 124-125
Geraldine Brooks, Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic, Thomas Y. Cromwell and Co New York, 1901)
Catherine Kerrison, ‘The French Education of Martha Jefferson Randolph,’ Early American Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, (Spring 2013) pp. 349-394
American National Biography Database
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/martha-wayles-skelton-jefferson
http://www.firstladies.org/blog/first-ladies-never-married-to-presidents-martha-randolph/
https://millercenter.org/president/jefferson/essays/madison-1801-firstlady
Cynthia A. Kierner, ‘Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia,’ in Children and Youth in a New Nation , eds. James Marten, NYU Press, New York, 2009
Cynthia A. Kierner, ‘The President’s Daughter,’ in Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello, University of North Carolina Press, 2012