Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow LeeThis elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819 1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren's son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister in law, future Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee