Title: Abigail Adams, an American woman /
Authors: Akers, Charles W.
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Adams, John,; Adams, Abigail,; Presidents' spouses United States Biography
Abstract: A biography of the unschooled daughter of a country minister who was the wife of the second President of the United States and the mother of the sixth President.
Contents: Editor's preface -- "You may take me" : 1744-1764 -- "An important trust" : 1764-1774 -- "Remember the ladies" : 1774-1776" -- "Bereft of my better half" : 1776-1778 -- "Patriotism in the female sex" : 1778-1784 -- "The Amaizing difference" : 1784-1785 -- "I will not strike my colours" : 1785-1788 -- "In their proper sphere" : 1788-1792 -- "Tellegraph of the mind" : 1792-1797 -- "Fellow labourer" : 1797-1798 -- "What I cannot remedy" : 1798-1801 -- "The mother of such a son" : 1801-1818 -- A note on the sources.