A traveled first lady
Subtitle: writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
By: edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor ; foreword by Laura Bush
Contributors: Hogan, Margaret A.; Taylor, C. James, 1945-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780674048010
Subjects: Presidents' spouses; Biography
Description: Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "All was joy and peace and love": youth; title: "An object of general attention": Prussia; title: "Had I steped into Noah's ark": United States; title: "The savage had been expected": Russia; title: "The memory of one, who was": St. Petersburg to Paris; title: "The wife of a man of superior talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820; title: "I am a very good diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824; title: "This apparent fate": retirement; title: Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa.