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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 04 > From first frump to fairly foxy

From first frump to fairly foxy

Historians are reconsidering Martha Washington’s image

By Brigid Schulte / The Bulletin
February 4, 2009

WASHINGTON — This just in: Martha Washington was hot. Or at least hotter than we thought.

Our image of the mother of our country, vague and insubstantial as it is, is drawn from portraits painted after her death showing a frumpy, dumpy, plump old lady, a fussy jumble of needlework in....

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