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Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution / Natalie S. Bober.

by Bober, Natalie.

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Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818 -- Juvenile literature.

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Women -- Biography.

Publisher Info:

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1995.

xvii, 248 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

"A very incorrect writer" -- "Ballast is what I want" -- "You may take me" -- "The weaker sex" -- "I should have been a rover" -- "Flame is kindled" -- "Partner in all the joys and sorrows" -- "I want some sentimental effusions of the heart" -- "Mrs. Delegate" -- "Remember the ladies" -- "I want a companion a nights" -- "To rob me of all my happiness" -- "And shall I see his face again?" -- "Who shall give me back time?" -- "Safely landed" -- "One of the choice ones of the earth" -- "Three-fold cord" -- "You, I must and will have" -- "Jewel of great price" -- "Splendidi misery" -- "If man is Lord, woman is Lordess" -- "Young shoots and branches" -- "What have I not lost" -- "Dearest friend".

Book opens with a detailed chronology of the life of Abigail Adams, the wife of the second president of the United States and the mother of the sixth presiden. Chapters chronicle the life and era of this spirited woman and include many excerpts from her own writings.

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