TY - BOOK ID - 80834032 TI - Abigail Adams : a writing life PY - 2002 SN - 9781136804878 1136804870 9780203827932 0203827937 0415939453 9780415939454 9781136804823 9781136804861 9781138440050 PB - New York ; Oxfordshire, England : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Presidents' spouses KW - Adams, Abigail, KW - Adams, Abigail Smith, KW - Smith, Abigail, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80834032 AB - In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are ""the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world."" Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides an intriguing first hand account of pivotal historical events and it shows how these events from the Boston Tea Party to the War of 1812 entered the private sphere. Included in the book is a chronology, notes and reference section and a selected bibliography. This book will be a must for all scholars of ER -