In a famous letter to her husband, John Adams
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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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Sarah Wentworth Morton
She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Her title-page quotes from Spenser
's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
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...
