LEADER 04085nam 2200625 450 001 9910789393403321 005 20230802045044.0 010 $a0-674-36928-9 010 $a0-674-36927-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674369276 035 $a(CKB)3710000000089428 035 $a(EBL)3301390 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134888 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11729860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134888 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11075271 035 $a(PQKB)11675960 035 $a(DE-B1597)427281 035 $a(OCoLC)876042376 035 $a(OCoLC)979967928 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674369276 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301390 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10839478 035 $a(OCoLC)871257482 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301390 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000089428 100 $a20140228h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA travelled first lady $ewritings of Louisa Catherine Adams /$fedited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor ; foreword by Laura Bush ; designed by Dean Bornstein 210 1$aCambridge, England ;$aLondon, England :$cThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-674-04801-6 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rBush, Laura --$tIntroduction --$tNote to the Reader --$t1. "All Was Joy and Peace and Love": Youth --$t2. "An Object of General Attention": Prussia --$t3. "Had I Stepped into Noah's Ark": United States --$t4. "The Savage Had Been Expected": Russia --$t5. "The Memory of One, Who Was": St. Petersburg to Paris --$t6. "The Wife of a Man of Superior Talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820 --$t7. "I Am a Very Good Diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824 --$t8. "This Apparent Fate": Retirement --$tEpilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa --$tChronology --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aCongress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife of a president. She had assisted her husband as a diplomat at three of the major capitals of Europe. She had served as a leading hostess and significant figure in Washington for three decades. And yet, a century and a half later, she is barely remembered. A Travelled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams seeks to correct that oversight by sharing Adams's remarkable experiences in her own words. These excerpts from diaries and memoirs recount her early years in London and Paris (to this day she is the only foreign-born first lady), her courtship and marriage to John Quincy Adams, her time in the lavish courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg as a diplomat's wife, and her years aiding John Quincy's political career in Washington. Emotional, critical, witty, and, in the Adams tradition, always frank, her writings draw sharp portraits of people from every station, both servants and members of the imperial court, and deliver clear, well-informed opinions about the major issues of her day. Telling the story of her own life, juxtaposed with rich descriptions of European courts, Washington political maneuvers, and the continuing Adams family drama, Louisa Catherine Adams demonstrates why she was once considered one of the preeminent women of the nineteenth century. 606 $aPresidents' spouses$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aPresidents' spouses 676 $a973.5/5092 700 $aAdams$b Louisa Catherine$01577211 701 $aHogan$b Margaret A$01577212 701 $aTaylor$b C. James$f1945-$0970146 701 $aBush$b Laura Welch$f1946-$01201348 701 $aBornstein$b Dean$01573156 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789393403321 996 $aA travelled first lady$93855609 997 $aUNINA