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Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son remaining St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and lay out on a difficult journey to meet her partner, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She journeyed through the snows of eastern European countries, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, over the battlefields of Germany, and into a France that was then experiencing the tumultuous occurrences of Napoleon's return from Elba. On the way, she learned the actual long years of Napoleon's wars experienced done to European countries, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin experienced experienced during the French occupation, how it perceived to have her life threatened by reckless military, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: blessed in London in 1775, she experienced grown up partially in France, and in 1797 she experienced married in to 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 remarkable passing. An evocative background of the knowledge of travel in the times of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving family portrait of a female, her difficult matrimony, and her conflicted sense of what it designed to be a girl found between worlds.
