Like so many of her contemporaries, MOW
was an energetic and compelling letter-writer. She corresponded with an unidentified Dr Betsey on the topic of women's education. Her many letters to Abigail Adams
include one of...
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Abigail Adams
In a famous letter to her husband, John Adams
, AA
wrote: I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and proposed legal reform to better the lot of married women.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown.
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Susanna Haswell Rowson
The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...
