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Title: Abigail Adams and Her Times
Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Release Date: December 11, 2012 [eBook #41605]
Language: English
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ABIGAIL ADAMS
AND HER TIMES
| Abigail Adams and Her Times |
| Pippin |
| Elizabeth Fry |
| Florence Nightingale |
| Mrs. Tree |
| Mrs. Tree's Will |
| Miss Jimmy |
| The Wooing of Calvin Parks |
| Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe |
| Two Noble Lives |
| Captain January |
| A Happy Little Time |
| When I Was Your Age |
| Five Minute Stories |
| In My Nursery |
| The Golden Windows |
| The Silver Crown |
| The Joyous Story of Toto |
| The Life of Julia Ward Howe |
| With Maud Howe Elliott, etc., etc. |
ABIGAIL ADAMS
AND HER TIMES
AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH FRY, THE ANGEL OF THE PRISONS,"
"FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, THE ANGEL OF THE
CRIMEA," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1917
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
THE HONORED MEMORY OF
FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN
THE FRIEND OF MY PARENTS AND OF MY CHILDREN;
TO THREE GENERATIONS A FAITHFUL,
AFFECTIONATE, AND BELOVED
COUNSELLOR.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Begins at the Beginning | 1 |
| II. | Girlhood and Marriage | 24 |
| III. | The Boston Massacre | 40 |
| IV. | The Boston Tea Party | 60 |
| V. | After Lexington | 88 |
| VI. | Boston Blockade | 112 |
| VII. | In Happy Braintree | 124 |
| VIII. | Independence at Last | 142 |
| IX. | Mr. Adams Abroad | 181 |
| X. | The Court of St. James | 197 |
| XI. | Vexatious Honors | 231 |
| XII. | Afternoon and Evening | |