The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and DaughtersFrom his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family, Nagel pulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances. They all lived exceptional, if not extraordinary, lives, in different ways. |
Contents
The White House | 3 |
Three Daughters | 7 |
Belonging to Everyone | 29 |
From One Parsonage | 49 |
To Another | 68 |
Weymouth Again | 81 |
Wedding in London | 99 |
No Relief | 120 |
SistersinLaw | 198 |
The Worst of Times | 214 |
A Young Widow Ages | 230 |
Wedding at Mystic Grove | 244 |
A Triumph | 261 |
Peace at Last | 275 |
The Crypt | 293 |
Acknowledgments and Sources | 297 |
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