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In January of 1829, a widow named Margaret O'Neale Timberlake married John Eaton, a United States Senator with his star on the rise. Inspired by the suggestion of a Footnoting History listener, Christine uses this episode to dive into the details of her life, including the marriage that caused tempers to flare in President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet and the lesser-discussed drama of her later life.
Host: Christine
Further Reading
John Quincy Adams, Diaries (1821-1840), Ed. David Waldstreicher, Library of America, (2017). Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. University Press of Virginia, (2000). Allida Black, "Rachel Donelson Jackson", The White House (2009). Mark R. Cheathem, ""The High Minded Honourable Man": Honor, Kinship, and Conflict in the Life of Andrew Jackson Donelson", Journal of the Early Republic, 27:2 (2007): 265-292. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "Andrew Jackson's Cabinet", The White House Historical Association (2020). Curtis Dahl, “The Clergyman, the Hussy, and Old Hickory: Ezra Stiles Ely and the Peggy Eaton Affair.” Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), 52:2 (1974): 137–55. "The Eaton Buchignani-Randloph Elopment Case", Cleveland Daily Herald, 21 July 1869. Margaret Eaton, The Autobiography of Peggy Eaton, Scribner, (1932). William Carl Klunder, “Eaton, John Henry (18 June 1790–17 November 1856)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1999/2000). –, “Eaton, Peggy (03 December 1799?-08 November 1879)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1999/2000). Richard B. Latner, “The Eaton Affair Reconsidered”, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 36:3 (Fall 1977): 330-351. John F. Marszalek, “The Eaton Affair: Society and Politics”, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 55:1, (Spring 1996): 6-19. –, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House, LSU Press, (2000). "Mr. Eaton's Reply to Messrs. Ingham, Branch, and Berrien", Washington Globe, 15 Sept 1831, pp. 1-4. "Mrs. General Eaton", Galveston Daily News, 16 Nov 1879, p. 1. “Obituary.” Daily Inter Ocean, 10 Nov 1879, p. 2. Richard Douglas Spence, Andrew Jackson Donelson: Jacksonian and Unionist, Vanderbilt University Press, (2017). Kirsten E. Wood, ““One Woman so Dangerous to Public Morals”: Gender and Power in the Eaton Affair,” Journal of the Early Republic, 17:2, (Summer 1997): 237-275. Images Margaret Eaton in her older years, via Library of Congress Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com) Leave a Reply. |