About the Author

Edith B. Gelles is senior scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is the author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams and Abigail Adams: A Writing Life.

Reviews

"Abigaill Franks' letters are essential to the study of American Jewish history and the best single collection of Colonial era correspondence from a Jewish family that we possess."-Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History