Bibliograph

Abigail Adams, letters, Edith Gelles, editor

Type

Label

Abigail Adams, letters, Edith Gelles, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Abigail Adams

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

910980479

Responsibility statement

Edith Gelles, editor

Series statement

The library of America, 275

Sub title

letters

Summary

Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters - more than a hundred published for the first time - to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to "Remember the Ladies," letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation's founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams's life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees

Table Of Contents

Courtship and marriage, 1763-1773 -- Revolution, 1773-1777 -- The years abroad, 1778-1788 -- Vice president's lady, 1788-1796 -- First Lady, 1797-1801 -- Retirement, 1801-1818

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Letters

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