The Lees of Menokin: An Early American Love Story

Francis Lightfoot Lee is known in the annals of Virginia history as one of the colony's signers of the Declaration of Independence. Yet little is known of Lee's personal life, a void which novelist and long-time Virginian Suzanne Hadfield Semsch set out to fill with extensive research and a healthy dose of creativity without distorting historical fact. The result is The Lees of Menokin, a biographical novel documenting Lee's career as well as his courtship and marriage to Rebecca "Becky" Tayloe. A descendant of one of Virginia's "first families," Lee was a staunch patriot and reputed ladies' man serving in the colony's House of Burgesses when he fell in love with Becky, who was half his age. From the early days at Menokin, their plantation home, through the turbulence of the Revolution, to the lean post-war years, readers will enjoy a glimpse into this formative period of early America. The Lees of Menokin is an engaging love story set against the chaotic backdrop of revolution.

Author: Suzanne Hadfield Semsch
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 09/25/2009
Pages: 646
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.43d
ISBN: 9781439245965

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 01/20/2010

About the Author
Suzanne Hadfield Semsch's lifelong interest in writing and literature and her insatiable curiosity inspired her to explore history and complete her debut novel, The Lees of Menokin. Raised in a military family and married to a career army officer, she has traveled extensively and lived in Europe and thirteen of the United States. More than half her life, however, has been spent in Virginia. Today, she resides in Charlottesville and considers herself a "Virginian by choice." She has been writing both personally and professionally for many years, and is currently at work on her next project, a multi-generational saga of an American military family.

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