![]() ![]() if as a Female I may be calld an Idle, I never can be an uninterested Spectator,” she wrote to John Adams in 1793. ![]() “You know my mind is much occupied with the affairs of our Country. In between she was both a witness to and an erudite and witty commentator on the American Revolution, French and British society at the end of the eighteenth century, and the presidential administrations of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, as well as the beginning of the political career of her son, John Quincy Adams. Best known for her correspondence with her husband and the declaration “I desire you would Remember the Ladies,” Abigail Adams served as her husband’s advisor, critic, advocate, and above all, “dearest friend,” from the beginning of their courtship in 1761 until her death in 1818. ![]()
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