Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980.
17, 113, 141-3
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Judith Sargent Murray | The set was dedicated to John Adams
, and subscribers included the dedicatee, many of the author's relations, Sarah Wentworth Morton
and her husband
, Susanna Haswell Rowson
, and George
and Martha Washington
.... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Wentworth Morton | A much more painful scandal brewed when Perez Morton
embarked on an adulterous affair with his wife's sister Fanny
, when she came to stay with the family in about 1786. Fanny bore his baby... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Abigail Adams | Abigail Smith
married lawyer John Adams
, who was later to become Vice-President, then second President, of the newly-constituted United States. Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980. 17, 113, 141-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Brooks Adams | Both his great-grandfather John Adams
, and grandfather John Quincy Adams
, served as Presidents of the United States. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. 3 |
Friends, Associates | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Literary responses | Mercy Otis Warren | When John Adams
read this volume he said that no female British poet was MOW
's equal. Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972. 162-3 |
Literary responses | Mercy Otis Warren | John Adams
quarrelled with MOW
over her History, developing his differences with her in a correspondence which began in July 1807. Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press, 1972. 214ff |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | Her publisher, Edward Dilly
, told John Adams
that her political sympathies impelled her, despite serious ill health, to contribute this to the American cause. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 202 |
politics | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Publishing | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Residence | Abigail Adams | AA
went abroad with her husband
, and lived in France and England because of his diplomatic postings. Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980. 79-108 |
Textual Production | Mercy Otis Warren | 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... |
Textual Production | Ezra Pound | EP
published Cantos LII-LXXI; these include the Chinese Cantos celebrating Confucius
and the Adams Cantos praising the early American president, John Adams
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiv, 7 |