A REVOLUTION IN WOMEN’S LIVES
“Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams urged her husband John, in a now famous 1776 letter. “Be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” Otherwise, she warned the future president, the patriots resisting British rule would soon face a revolution of their own, as women would not “hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation”.
In their famed exchange letters – of which more than 1,000 examples have survived – Abigail
