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Abigail Adams and Her Times

Abigail Adams and Her Times

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 154428683X
ISBN13: 9781544286839
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2017
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR! George the Second on the throne of England, snuffy old drone from the German hive; Charles Edward Stuart (bonnie Prince Charlie) making ready for his great coup which, the next year, was to cast down said George from the throne and set Charles Edward thereupon as rightful, lawful prince-for wha'll be king but Charlie?, and which ended in Culloden and the final downfall and dispersion of the Scottish Stuarts. In France, Louis XV., Lord of Misrule, shepherding his people toward the Abyss with what skill was in him; at war with England, at war with Hungary; Frederick of Prussia alone standing by him. In Europe, generally, a seething condition which is not our immediate concern. In America, seething also: discontent, indignation, rising higher and higher under British imposition (not British either, being the work of Britain's German ruler, not of her people!), yet quelled for the moment by war with France. I am not writing a history; far from it. I am merely throwing on the screen, in the fashion of today, a few scenes to make a background for my little pen-picture-play. What is really our immediate concern is that on November eleventh of this same year, 1744, was born to the wife of the Reverend William Smith of Weymouth, Massachusetts, a daughter, baptized Abigail.

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