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...turned woman of business,” remarked Louisa Catherine Adams in January 1815, having received a letter from her husband, John Quincy Adams, inviting her to make the journey from Saint Petersburg to Paris. Her husband had not specified a time limit, but Mrs. Adams began making arrangements for her immediate departure, accompanied by her seven-year old son. She was thrilled to be leaving Russia after having suffered the wearying expense of expatriate living, the oppressive politesse required by her regular engagements at the Tsar’s imperial court, and six years of seemingly endless winters...
...Brien marshals an impressive array of sources in order to recreate Mrs. Adams’ journey across Europe. The result is an agreeable mix of biography, travelogue, and historical narrative—a book whose form is as hybrid as its subject. O’Brien describes Louisa Catherine Adams as “migrant, transnational, bicultural, bilingual,” and proposes to read her journey as an expression of those qualities, as well as in explicitly gendered terms as an example of “a woman acting in the name of other women...
...Warble is an online magazine that takes advantage of this heightened accessibility from the isolation of Currier House. Creators Emma C. Banay ’11, Louisa C. Denison ’11, Douglas C. Duquette ’09, and Clement D. Wright ’09 distributed the first issue of The Warble on Nov. 1 as an alternate way for student artists in Currier to share their work. “Art can be this link in the house community and allow you to get to know the other people who are walking around in the dining...
...much we fear poetry or don’t like reading it, we live with it everyday” Sifuentes says. The poetry of daily life was shown in a slideshow of pictures taken by Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09, Kelly A. Evans ’10, Louisa R. Malkin ’09, and Steven Surachman ’09 that documented a 24-hour period of their lives. The poem that accompanied their exhibit was Robert Lowell’s confessional poem “History.” The pictures of seemingly ordinary events, such...
...surprised at just how angry John has become," said his former Senate colleague Chris Dodd, another presidential contender. "This is not the same John Edwards I once knew." Some of his former supporters feel the same way. Frank Best had originally signed up to lead Edwards' campaign in Louisa County, Iowa, but has since switched to Barack Obama, saying "Edwards just doesn't have the same campaign he had four years...