SuitabookAbigail Adams
PeggySue Wells
- Reading
- Pause around education for girls and boys and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Education for girls and boys: Abigail wanted schooling like the boys and was taught at home by her father, who recognised her inquisitiveness. The overview identifies her support for education for both sexes, but does not establish how the full book evaluates unequal access.
- Letters and political life: The overview says Abigail was John Adams’s confidante and that the couple exchanged more than 1,100 letters. The letters are presented as offering historical insight, but the book’s selection and interpretation of them are not specified.
- Worth knowing
- The overview says Abigail and John were frequently apart for the cause of liberty; how much attention the book gives to those separations is unclear.