Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America | 
so-soThis biography of Peggy Shippen, wife of Benedict Arnold, was frankly disappointing because there is so little left of her life. She convinced men like Washington and Hamilton that she knew nothing of the West Point plot to despite quite a bit of evidence to the contrary (though some was discovered at a much later date). Shippen's relatives destroyed her correspondence so not to implicate her forcing the authors to speculate about her motivations.
rubyslippersreads Oh no; I was really looking forward to this. 😕 8y
CoffeeCatsBooks @rubyslippersreads The section where she meets Major John Andre was interesting. The authors speculate that Andre was more attached to Peggy Chew. There is also a good bit of evidence about her convincing Washington and Hamilton of her innocence, partly due to views of women at the time. It does also highlight the "blind leap" that marriage was for women and the latter section of the book discusses her struggle to stay solvent. 8y
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