Expansive back matter includes an afterword from Phillipa Soo, who originated Hamilton’s role in the musical Hamilton. Photos: GraphicaArtis/Getty Images Kean Collection/Getty Images. Shapiro illustrates in delicate, pattern-laden mixed media landscapes call to mind the work of Grandma Moses, while Hamilton, her husband, and other figures resemble finely featured paper dolls. The United States’s most enigmatic founding father rose from obscurity to help build a new nationone where he earned friends and enemies at just about every turn.
During her girlhood in upstate New York, she and her sisters lived in a world that might be best described as a cross between every Jane Austen novel that you've ever read and James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
McNamara provides a portrait of the subject beyond her famed marriage, as Hamilton recounts her work to build schools and orphanages. Eliza was born Elizabeth Schuyler in 1757, the daughter of an important landowner and Revolutionary War general. Perfect for parents or caregivers of children aged twotwelve years old (and childrens book lovers of all ages) Email. In an epistolary picture book, McNamara envisions Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton as an elderly woman writing a letter to her yet-to-be-born great-granddaughter Elizabeth: “My daughter, who is your grandmama, has asked me to devote this day to writing a letter to you, about my very long and fortunate life.” The letter details Hamilton’s upbringing (including her family’s ownership of slaves and her deep, subsequent regrets), her marriage to Alexander Hamilton and her social and political engagement alongside him, and his untimely death. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (17571854) was a philanthropist, wife to Alexander Hamilton, and mother of their 8 children.
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