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Woman's Role in the Republic
| - | Abigail Adams, Letters to/from John Adams and John Quincy Adams, 1776, 1780, 1783, excerpts |
| - | Dr. Samuel Jennings, The Married Lady's Companion, 1808, excerpt |
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"Keep within Compass"
ca. 1795 (detail)
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Abigail Adams to/from John Adams
31 March 1776:
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s9.html
14 April 1776:
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s10.html
7 May 1776:
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s12.html
Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 March 1780 /
26 Dec. 1783: PDF file*
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text4/
aadamstojqadams.pdf
Jennings: PDF file*
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text4/jennings.pdf
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Sources
| Abigail/John Adams letters: The Founders' Constitution, University of Chicago Press
Abigail/John Quincy Adams letters: National Humanities Center
Jennings: National Humanities Center
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Printing
| If you choose to print these texts:
- Print directly from the sites (printer-friendly versions when
available).
- Length: 10 pages (PDF files*).
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Supplemental
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Overview, "The American Woman of the Early Nineteenth Century," from the Connor Prairie Museum, Indiana
Brief biography of Abigail Adams, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Biography of Abigail Adams, from the Unitarian-Universalist Historical Society
Online exhibition: One President's Adolescence, on the youth and education of John Quincy Adams
Illustration, "Keep within Compass," ca. 1785-1805, from CUNY-College of Staten Island
Hannah Foster, The Coquette, 1797 [novel]
The Diary of Martha Ballard (diary: 1785-1812), from DoHistory.org, Film Study Center, Harvard University
Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts upon Female Education," 1787, from the University of Chicago ClassWeb
Jennifer Manion, "The Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia: Attitudes toward the Formal Education of Women in America, 1790-1800," Penn History Review, Spring 1997
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