Abigail Adams - A Writing Life

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, but she was also an important literary and historical figure in her own right. This reinterpretation of her life and work establishes her independent reputation and enshrines her within the pantheon of early American writers.

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"All this Edith Gelles relates with clarity and warmth...this is a perceptive study and a lively incentive to read the correspondence itself." -- Economist"Edith Gelles's newly published biography and critique...offers an excellent entry point for anyone whi is interested in Abigail Adams as a writer." -- Biography Spring 2003

Product details

• Authors: Edith B. Gelles, Edith Belle Gelles, Gelles Edith B.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2002
• EAN: 9780415939454
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93945-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Literature: history & criticism, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form