Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington–proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.
Background Information
The men who attended the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence risked their lives and fortunes to announce the new nation to the world. Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams. the nation's second president, and a lifelong letter writer whose letters to her husband have been widely published. Martha Washington was a rich Virginia widow before she married George Washington.