They also bring vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “If as a Female I may be calld an Idle, I never can be an uninterested Spectator.” Through her brilliant and insightful correspondence Adams fully engaged with the political, social, and intellectual currents of her age, and her letters offer a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role. “You know my mind is much occupied with the affairs of our Country,” Abigail Adams wrote to her husband in 1793.
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