Louisa the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
(2016)
By:
Thomas, Louisa
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ADAMS,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2016
DESCRIPTION
500 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594204630, 1594204632
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Fraught with bliss: London, 1775-1797 -- Life was new: Berlin, 1797-1801 -- My head and my heart: Washington and Massachusetts, 1801-1809 -- The gilded darkness: St. Petersburg, 1809-1815 -- Narrative of a journey: from St. Petersburg to Paris, 1815 -- A little paradise: London and Ealing, 1815-1817 -- My campaigne: Washington and Philadelphia, 1817-1825 -- A bird in a cage: Washington, 1825-1829 -- Beginning the world anew: Washington and Quincy, 1829-1836 -- In my own name: Washington and Quincy, 1836-1852
An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time