Abigail Adams
Abigail Smith was a well-educated woman. She was born into a society of Puritan aristocracy and daughter of a congregational minister. She was able to have the freedom to read and write thanks to her father who allowed her and her sisters to do so even though it was a time when it was absurd for women to be able to learn.
Abigail never attended a college, but on her free time she loved to write letters to her friends. The names used in her letters had to be disguised, in the letters she wrote to John Adams she used the name " Diana" for herself and "Lysander" for John.
John and Abigail married on October 25, 1764
Abigail never attended a college, but on her free time she loved to write letters to her friends. The names used in her letters had to be disguised, in the letters she wrote to John Adams she used the name " Diana" for herself and "Lysander" for John.
John and Abigail married on October 25, 1764
The picture below shows up close a part of a letter that Abigail Adams sent to her husband John Adams right after he was elected president. Her and her husband send multiple letters back and forth but this one in particular that was written on March 31, 1776 shows a part of the letter that says, "Remember the ladies." She wrote this to him while he was in Philadelphia at the Continental Congress fighting for American Independence. She also stated in this letter that, "... we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."