Edith B Gelles

Abigail Adams

A Writing Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She was more than just the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams was an important literary and historical figure in her own right. In this luminous reinterpretation of a life and a life's work, Edith B. Gelles recognizes Abigail Adams as a significant author of an era when it wasn't respectable for women to write publicly. Gelles unveils a little-known life by examining Adams's collected letters-"the best account that exists from the pre- to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." The correspondence provides unusual access to Adams's private life, describing social conventions, detailing Adams's influence on her husband ("remember the ladies"), and recording her reactions to political affairs and historic figures of early America. This, the first and only book to examine Abigail Adams's writings from the dual standpoints of biography and literary analysis, establishes her independent reputation, and enshrines her within the pantheon of early American writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 163mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415939454
• ISBN-10: 0415939453
• Artikelnr.: 22050861

Autorenporträt

Edith B. Gelles is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University and the author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, winner of the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chronology The Eighteenth-Century Letter 1. Introduction:
Letters as Literature 2. Remember the Ladies The Confidential Letter 3.
Bonds of Friendship: The Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis
Warren The Travel Letter 4. The Voyage 5. In the Midst of the World in
Solitude 6. At the Court of St. James Interlude The Historic Letter 7.
Splendid Misery: Abigail Adams as First Lady 8. End of the Story Notes and
References Selected Bibliography Index