Mrs. Adams In Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

by Michael O'brien

2020-12-28 19:58:46

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the ... Read more

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon''s return from Elba. The prize-winning historian Michael O''Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams''s extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.85 in
Print pages384
PublisherPicador
Publication date March 29, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780312681142

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