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== 背景 ==
マーガレット「ペギー」イートンは[[ホワイトハウス]]から少し離れたところにあり、政治家や軍人に人気の有名な交流の場、[[ワシントンD.C.]]の下宿兼居酒屋「フランクリンハウス」を経営するウィリアム・オニールの長女だった。ペギーは[[フランス語]]を学び、ピアノを上手に弾き、その時代の女性としては十分な教育を受けていた。
Margaret "Peggy" Eaton was the eldest daughter of William O'Neill, owner of the Franklin House, a boarding house and tavern located in [[Washington, D.C.]] a short distance from the [[White House]] that was a well-known social hub popular with politicians and military officials. Peggy was well-educated for a woman of that era – she studied French and was known for her ability to play the piano.<ref name=historynet>[http://www.historynet.com/andrew-jackson-the-petticoat-affair-scandal-in-jackons-white-house.htm/4 "Andrew Jackson: The Petticoat Affair, Scandal in Jackson's White House"], History Net, accessed August 4, 2009.</ref> [[William T. Barry]], who later served as [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]], wrote "of a charming little girl ... who very frequently plays the piano, and entertains us with agreeable songs."{{sfn|Marszalek|2000|p=1835}} As a young girl, her reputation had already begun to come under scrutiny, due to being employed in a bar frequented by men as well as her casual bantering with the boarding house's clientele. In her elder years, Peggy reminisced, "While I was still in [[pantalettes]] and [[hoop rolling|rolling hoops]] with other girls, I had the attention of men, young and old; enough to turn a girl's head."<ref name="One Woman">{{cite journal | jstor=3124447| title=One Woman so Dangerous to Public Morals | author=Wood, Kristen E. | journal=Journal of the Early Republic | date=March 1, 1997 |volume=17 | issue=2 | pages=237–275 | doi=10.2307/3124447}}</ref>▼
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When Peggy was 15 years old, her father intervened to prevent her attempt to elope with an Army officer.<ref>{{cite book |last=Watson |first=Robert P. |date=2012 |title=Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6LRVg0kn28C&pg=PA192 |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=192 |isbn=978-1-4422-1834-5}}</ref> In 1816, the now-17-year old married [[John B. Timberlake]] (1777–1828), a [[purser]] in the [[United States Navy]].<ref name="The Long">{{cite journal | title=The Long Agony Is Nearly Over | author=Jr, Royce McCrary and S. D. Ingham | journal=Historical Society of Pennsylvania | date=April 1, 1976}}</ref> Timberlake, aged 39, had a reputation as a drunkard and was heavily in debt.<ref name="The Long" /> The Timberlakes became acquainted with [[John Eaton (politician)|John Eaton]] in 1818.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gerson |first=Noel Bertram |date=1974 |title=That Eaton Woman: In Defense of Peggy O'Neale Eaton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3crAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+eaton%22+%22friendly%22+%22timberlake%22&dq=%22john+eaton%22+%22friendly%22+%22timberlake%22 |location=Barre, MA |publisher=Barre Publishing |page=25}}</ref> At the time, Eaton was a wealthy 28-year-old widower and newly elected U.S. Senator from Tennessee, despite not yet having reached the constitutionally-mandated minimum age of 30.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=Richard A. |date=2006 |title=200 Notable Days: Senate Stories, 1787 to 2002 |url=https://archive.org/details/200notabledaysse0000bake |url-access=registration |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=[https://archive.org/details/200notabledaysse0000bake/page/41 41] |isbn=978-0-16-076331-1}}</ref> He was also a long-time friend of [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Belohlavek |first=John M. |date=2016 |title=Andrew Jackson: Principle and Prejudice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKJTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Routledge |page=65 |isbn=978-0-415-84485-7}}</ref>
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