Mrs. Adams in Winter

A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

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Michael O'Brien

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

Michael O'Brien is Professor of American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.

Release date Australia

March 29th, 2011

Author

Michael O'Brien

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

illustrations; maps

Pages

384

Dimensions

143x210x27

ISBN-13

9780312681142

Product ID

10041708

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