Advance Praise for Angelica:

Richly detailed, sharply observed, and surprising, Angelica offers a fresh vision of characters and events often obscured by our preconceptions.

Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever, Natural History, and Servants of the Map

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In this rich and generous biography, Molly Beer uses an extra large canvas to paint a portrait of one of the most notable women of the Revolutionary era. Angelica Schuyler Church was everywhere, and in following the course of her remarkable life Beer fills in the backgrounds of the places she called home, from the very Dutch Albany of the 1750s to New York, London, and Paris. Along the way, we see a nation come into being as one of its founding women adroitly negotiates the social and political landscape.

Russell Shorto, author of Taking Manhattan, Revolution Song, & The Island at the Center of the World

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Angelica offers a fresh, arresting history of the American Revolution as people lived it: facing forward. Molly Beer recovers the suspense, perils, and dazzling possibilities of the era—not to mention its textures, sounds, and tastes. Her lapidary prose and keen sense of character brings Angelica Schuyler Church, her family, and her world to vivid, unforgettable life, making a great global event into a family drama, and vice versa.

Jane Kamensky, author of Revolution in Color and President of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation

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For far too long the grand tapestry of America’s journey to independence has foregrounded fathers and sons while keeping the women in the shadows. Molly Beer’s biography of Angelica Schuyler Church is a vital corrective, bringing to life an extraordinary woman whose modern persona as Alexander Hamilton’s friend and sister-in-law was only the beginning of her story.

Amanda Foreman, author of The Duchess and A World on Fire