Update on Research and Bibliography

I am perusing all forms of research and I am discovering that I would love to narrow my research to the intellectual and political discourse between Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren.  I will specifically analyze their correspondence with one another during the late 18th century at the tumulutous time of the American Revolution.  Through the textual medium of correspondence letters, I hope to capture a glimpse of the dynamic relationship that Warren and Adams shared and how they motivated one another politically and intellectually. 

Questions my research will answer:
How did they inspire one another? How did they reach one another? How did they challenge one another to grow as thinkers and women? How did they create a discourse that allowed them the opportunity to discuss the political events and ideology that shaped the framework for their lives and their communities? How did they support each other as individuals, wives, and mothers at this chaotic time in our nation's history?

Preliminary Bibliography:

Adams, John, Abigail Adams, and Frank Shuffelton. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams.

            New York: Penguin Group, 2003. Print.

Amory, Hugh, and David D. Hall. "Readers & Writers in Early New England." A History of the Book in  America. [Worcester, Mass.]: American Antiquarian Society, 2000. Print.

Buckingham, Joseph T., ed. "Cover 1-No Title." New-England Galaxy and Masonic

Magazine [Boston] 25 Dec. 1818, 2nd ed., sec. 63: 1. American Periodicals Series Online. Web. 15 Sept. 2011

Buckingham, Joseph T., ed. "Obiuary Notice of Madam Abigail Adams." New-England   

Galaxy and Masonic Magazine [Boston] 13 Nov. 1818, Series 1 ed.: 18. American Periodicals Series Online. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.

Gelles, Edith B. "Abigail Adams: Domesticity and the American Revolution." The New England

            Quarterly 52.4 (1979): 500-21. JSTOR. Web. 2 Oct. 2011.

Gelles, Edith B. "Bonds of Friendship: The Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis

Warren." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3rd ser. 108 (1996): 35-71. JSTOR. Web. 2 Oct. 2011.

Gelles, Edith. "Review: More than a Wife." The Woman's Review of Books 5.5 (1988): 18-19.

            JSTOR. Web. 2 Oct. 2011.

Hicks, Philip. "Portia and Marcia: Female Political Identity and the Historical Imagination, 1770-

1800." The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 62.2 (2005): 265-94. JSTOR. Web. 2 Oct. 2011.

Hoornstra, Jean, and Trudy Heath. American Periodicals, 1741-1900: An Index to the

Microfilm Collections-American Periodicals 18th Century, American Periodicals, 1800-1850, American Periodicals, 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979. Print.

"Madam Abigail Adams." Christian Disciple 6 Dec. 1818: 364. American Periodicals

Series Online. Web. 10 Sept. 2011.