Cassandra Good

Interesting vignettes of many women during the founding and early years of the Republic; not just the usual famous ones like Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren, but others like Margaret Bayard Smith and Louisa Catherine Adams. I was a history and political science major and took several women-centric classes in history and politics and literature, and I never knew some of the facts uncovered here, particularly that women were intimately involved in national politics for a number of years in the early eighteenth. Fascinating.… (más)