"My Theodosia" details the brief life of Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr. Picking up on her 17th birthday and continuing until her death at age 30, Anya Seton shows us a picture of a young woman forced into a politically expedient marriage to South Carolinian planter Joseph Alston and away from her love Merriweather Lewis. Seton has researched Theodosia's life using letters, historical documents and diaries and presents a conflicted young woman whose filial piety is used against her by a manipulative parent. Interesting read.
