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Thursday, March 06, 2003 :::
Remembering the Ladies: Abigal Adams and Google
In a previous blog I ran as the "Quote of the Day" a letter from Abigal Adams asking her husband John to "remember the ladies" as the founding dead white guys were drafting the Declaration of Independence. Where I come from, that thing is quoted all the time, and I just hauled it out because I couldn't think of anything else. Plus I think its kind of cool.
Well, looking at my blog statistics, I've been getting a hell of a lot of Google and Yahoo hits off of different word combinations like: Abigal Adams remember the ladies, Abigal Adams remember the ladies picture, picture of John and Abigal Adams, etc etc. Well, I hope I've been able to help these folks, and I believe I have since I always cite my sources.
If you're looking for a picture of Abigal Adams "remember the ladies" letter, you won't find it here or here or here. But you will find it here.
There is a nice article on the letter, and a discussion of where Abby was getting her radical ideas from, in the October 1999 issue of The William and Mary Quarterly, (that's volume 56, number 4, pages 745 - 774). I don't think you can get it online unless you're at an institution with access to Jstor.
I think one reason people are so interested in that letter is because it is a rare (I think) occasion of one of the Founding Mothers voicing some political opinions, and ones a lot of people today can agree with. I'm not sure if there are many similiar surviving letters from any of the other dead white ladies. I think I smell another feature for Michaelspasm.
Quote of the Day:
The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst.
--- William Dean Howells, Editha, 1905.
::: posted by tom at 1:32 AM
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