Edith B Gelle Abigail Adams: A Writ...

Edith B Gelle Abigail Adams: A Writing Life. just discovered York: Routledge, 2002. 204 pp ISBN 0-415-93945-3 $1995

Emotions in and around Boston overflowed upon June 18, 1775 following the battle forward Breed's Hill, mislabeled for posterity by way of a British officer as Bunker's Hill. Among the many witnesses who recorded their reactions to this occurrence was Abigail Adams, whose descriptive verbal expression to her absent husband captured the importance and concussion of the moment. "The day--perhaps the decisive day--is follow on which the fate of America depends" Adams wrote "My bursting heart