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Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed. A woman of great influence in a time of influential women (Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette were contemporaries), Angelica was at the red-hot center of American history at its birth: in Boston, when General Burgoyne surrendered to the revolutionaries; in Newport, receiving French troops under the command of her soon-to-be dear friend Marquis de Lafayette; in Yorktown, just after the decisive battle; in Paris and London, helping to determine the standing of the new nation on the world stage. She was born as Engeltje, a Dutch-speaking, slave-owning colonial girl who witnessed the Stamp Act riots in the Royal British Province of New York. She came of age under English rule as Angelica, the eldest daughter of the most important family on the northern part of Hudson’s River, raised to be a domestic diplomat responsible for hosting indigenous chiefs and enemy British generals at dinner. She was Madame Church, wife of a privateer turned merchant banker, whose London house was a refuge for veterans of the American war fleeing the guillotine in France. Across nationalities, languages, and cultures, across the divides of war, grievance, and geography, Angelica wove a web of soft-power connections that spanned the War for Independence, the post-war years of tenuous peace, and the turbulent politics and rival ideologies that threatened to tear apart the nascent United States In this enthralling and revealing woman’s-eye view of a revolutionary era, Molly Beer breathes vibrant new life into a period usually dominated by masculine themes and often dulled by familiarity. In telling Angelica’s story, she illuminates how American women have always plied influence and networks for political ends, including the making of a new nation.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781324050216","publication_date":"20250701","publisher":"WW Norton","slug":"angelica","subtitle":"For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution","title":"Angelica"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS015050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Georgian Britain (1714-1837)","score":0.7064,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.7053,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAF024140","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial & Revolutionary YA","score":0.7037,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS015050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Georgian Britain (1714-1837)","score":0.7064,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.7053,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAF024140","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial & Revolutionary YA","score":0.7037,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO006000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Lives in History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BIO022000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Women's Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Georgian Britain (1714-1837)","score":0.7064,"slug":"georgian-britain-1714-1837"},{"label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.7053,"slug":"revolutionary-america-1775-1800"},{"label":"Colonial & Revolutionary YA","score":0.7037,"slug":"colonial-revolutionary-ya"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in women’s roles in the American Revolution","Good for readers interested in Angelica Schuyler Church’s life and influence"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Amanda Vaill"],"book_id":"9781250448255","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250448255.jpg?v=8fb5d69263cc1ef1","score":0.7528,"title":"Pride and Pleasure","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250448255"},{"authors":["L. 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