'A Fine Romance': The Courtship Correspondence between Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams

Autor: Margery M. Heffron
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: The New England Quarterly. 83:200-218
ISSN: 1937-2213
0028-4866
DOI: 10.1162/tneq.2010.83.2.200
Popis: Before they married in July 1797, Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams conducted a stormy correspondence that previewed their fifty-year marriage. The exceptional strengths they shared—wit, ambition, courage in adversity—would sustain them through devastating family tragedies but could not ease their path through a painful courtship.
Databáze: OpenAIRE