Edith Belle Gelles is an American author and historian. She grew up in
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,303.
The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburgh. ...
and attended
Cornell University
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,
Yale University
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, and the
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
. She is currently a Senior Scholar at the ''Clayman Institute for Gender Research'' at
Stanford University
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where she has been a faculty member since 1983. Her scholarship is primarily in the area of early American history, concentrating on biography and women. She is known for her scholarship and writing about
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams ( ''née'' Smith; November 22, [ O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was a founder of the United States, an ...
and her husband
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
.
Publications
Books
* ''Portia: The World of Abigail Adams'' (1996) Indiana University Press.
* ''The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733–1748: Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks 1733–1748'' (2004) Yale University Press.
* ''Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage'' (2009) William Morrow.
* ''Abigail Adams: Letters'' (Edith Gelles, Ed.). (2016).
Library of America
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.
* ''Abigail Adams: A Writing Life.'' (2017) Routledge.
* ''Gale Researcher Guide for John and Abigail Adams and the Revolution in Marriage'' (2018) Gale Publishing.
Journal articles
Abigail Adams: Domesticity and the American Revolution (1979). ''The New England Quarterly'', ''52''(4), 500–521.
A Virtuous Affair: The Correspondence Between Abigail Adams and James Lovell (1987).'' American Quarterly'', ''39''(2), 252–269.
The Abigail Industry (1988). ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', ''45''(4), 656–683.
Gossip: An Eighteenth-Century Case (1989). ''Journal of Social History'', ''22''(4), 667–683.
Bonds of Friendship: The Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren (1996). ''Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society'', ''108'', 35–71.
The Adamses Retire (2006). ''Early American Studies'', ''4''(1), 1–15.
See also
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Colonial history of the United States
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the ...
*
History of women in the United States
The history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history.
The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. During the 19th century, wo ...
References
Notes
Citations
External links
Faculty page Senior Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Stanford University.
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University.
Distinguished Lecturer Profile Organization of American Historians.
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21st-century American historians
20th-century American historians
Stanford University faculty
Living people
Historians from California
Historians from New York (state)
Cornell University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)