John Adams

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...

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...

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.

She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. Her title-page quotes from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...

EP published Cantos LII-LXXI; these include the Chinese Cantos celebrating Confucius and the Adams Cantos praising the early American president, John Adams .

AA went abroad with her husband , and lived in France and England because of his diplomatic postings.

She presumably wrote The Ladies of Castile this year; The Sack of Rome followed in 1787. She sent the latter to John Adams in London, hoping to have it produced there. He advised her...

MOW was a strong US nationalist before the War of Independence. Later she became, like her husband, an anti-Federalist: one of those who were not happy with the Constitution as drafted and sought amendments to...

Her publisher, Edward Dilly , told John Adams that her political sympathies impelled her, despite serious ill health, to contribute this to the American cause.

When John Adams read this volume he said that no female British poet was MOW 's equal.

John Adams quarrelled with MOW over her History, developing his differences with her in a correspondence which began in July 1807.

She was working on it by Christmas 1787, when John Adams advised her to persevere. Grief at the death of her son Winslow (who was killed in a military skirmish in the early 1790s) stopped...

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis

Though MOW 's strongest friendships were probably with men (John Adams , Thomas Jefferson , and others), some friendships with women were very important to her, notably that with Abigail Adams . In her...

Abigail Smith married lawyer John Adams , who was later to become Vice-President, then second President, of the newly-constituted United States.