

Mrs. Adams in Winter
A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Author: Michael O'Brien
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/08/2010
Synopsis
The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 she had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams.
The prizewinning 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.