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...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 away...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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