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...four months, engendered a profound and lasting depression in her mother, who began to pine for death herself: “I feel that all my wishes center in the grave,” she wrote in her diary. To this haunting episode, O’Brien attributes Louisa??s determination to complete her epic journey alone, three years later. But it also allows the author to complicate his impression of John Quincy Adams, who for once grew distracted from politics, and grieved deeply for his daughter. O’Brien quotes from a letter written...
...swirling world” of London. After meeting Quincy Adams in England, she had offended him by laughing at his earnestness, “as fashionable young women in London did at awkward young men from Massachusetts.” Later, they would fall out over Louisa??s desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the “cadaverous” pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband’s puritan sensibilities. He insisted on wiping her face himself. She reflected in her memoir later, “All my beauty was clean washed...
...because of his Wellesley job. He said he hopes to arrange times to be available on Saturday afternoons to converse with shoppers.Solano said that under her ownership, the shop had Saturday afternoon coffee hours when customers were encouraged “to stay around and talk.”LOUISA??S POETIC LICENSEThe Grolier Poetry Shop was founded in 1927 by Gordon Cairnie and Adrian Gambet, but Solano took the helm in 1974, when Cairnie died.Solano was asked to submit several poems for consideration for a memorial book that was made in the late owner?...
...LOUISA??S POETIC LICENSE...
Indeed she did. But historically, Louisa??s holding...