![]() ![]() In 1815, Louisa took a dangerous wartime journey that Taylor said could be made into a movie. The most dramatic episode of her life came almost 40 years earlier, while John Quincy Adams was an overseas ambassador. ![]() The daughter of an American merchant in London, Louisa Johnson Adams was accustomed to such events, which she called “sociables.” When she died in 1852, at 77, Congress gave her a rare honor by adjourning for the day. The book includes a foreword by former first lady Laura Bush. “She gave dinners and had senators around the table that you thought wouldn’t have talked to each other,” said Taylor, who co-authored the collection with Margaret Hogan, a former Adams Papers editor at the historical society. capital’s foremost social hostess in the early 19th century. James Taylor says the letters and diary-style reflections in “A Traveled First Lady” (Harvard University Press) show the determination and perception that made her the U.S. Abigail Adams from Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary. As for Louisa Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society editor and author C. ![]()
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