Edith B. Gelles

{{Infobox writer

| name = Edith B. Gelles

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| birth_place = Lake Placid, New York

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| occupation = Historian, author

| language = English

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = Cornell University, Yale University, University of California, Irvine

| period = Late 18th, early 19th century

| genre = non-fiction, history

| subject = Revolutionary and early American history

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| awards = Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association

| website = [https://web.stanford.edu/~gelles/ Stanford University]

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Edith Belle Gelles is an American author and historian. She grew up in Lake Placid, New York, and attended Cornell University, Yale University, and the University of California, Irvine. She is currently a Senior Scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University where she has been a faculty member since 1983. Her scholarship is primarily in the area of early American history, concentrating on biography and women. She is known for her scholarship and writing about Abigail Adams and her husband John.{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/~gelles/ |title=Edith Gelles faculty home page |website=Stanford University |date= |author= |access-date= February 11, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1521/edith-b-gelles/ |title=OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile |website=Organization of American Historians |date= |author= |access-date= February 11, 2021}}

Publications

=Books=

Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (1996) Indiana University Press.{{Cite journal| volume = 51| issue = 1| pages = 158–160| last1 = Gelles| first1 = Edith B.| last2 = Boydston| first2 = Jeanne| title = Review of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams| journal = The William and Mary Quarterly| access-date = February 12, 2021| date = 1994| doi = 10.2307/2947025| jstor = 2947025| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/2947025}}{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/2167452|jstor=2167452|title=Portia: The World of Abigail Adams|year=1994|last1=Crane|first1=Elaine Forman|last2=Gelles|first2=Edith B.|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=99|issue=2|page=641}}{{cite journal|last1=Armstrong|first1=Thom M.|title=Reviewed work: Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, Edith B. Gelles|journal=The Historian|year=1994|volume=56|issue=3|pages=561–563}}{{Cite journal| volume = 63| issue = 3| pages = 493–494| last1 = Gelles| first1 = Edith B.| last2 = Franz| first2 = George W.| title = Review of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams| journal = Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies| access-date = February 12, 2021| date = 1996| jstor = 27773921| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/27773921 }}{{ efn|American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award. }}
The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733–1748: Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks 1733–1748 (2004) Yale University Press.{{Cite journal| volume = 62| issue = 4| pages = 771–773| last1 = Gelles| first1 = Edith B.| last2 = Franks| first2 = Abigaill Levy| last3 = Nadell| first3 = Pamela S.| title = Review of The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733–1748| journal = The William and Mary Quarterly| access-date = February 12, 2021| date = 2005| doi = 10.2307/3491450| jstor = 3491450| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/3491450}}{{Cite journal| volume = 81| issue = 3| pages = 254| last1 = Mattern| first1 = David B.| last2 = Gelles| first2 = Edith B.| title = Review of The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733–1748| journal = The Virginia Quarterly Review| access-date = February 12, 2021| date = 2005| jstor = 26443864| url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/26443864}}
Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage (2009) William Morrow.{{cite journal|jstor=40661861|last1=Samuelson|first1=Richard|title=Reviewed work: Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage, Edith B. Gelles|journal=The Journal of American History|year=2010|volume=96|issue=4|page=1168|doi=10.1093/jahist/96.4.1168}}
Abigail Adams: Letters (Edith Gelles, Ed.). (2016). Library of America.
Abigail Adams: A Writing Life. (2017) Routledge.{{cite journal|jstor=23540416|last1=Angelis|first1=Angelo T.|title=Reviewed work: Abigail Adams: A Writing Life, Edith B. Gelles|journal=Biography|year=2003|volume=26|issue=2|pages=326–329|doi=10.1353/bio.2003.0038|s2cid=161180862}}
Gale Researcher Guide for John and Abigail Adams and the Revolution in Marriage (2018) Gale Publishing.

=Journal articles=

[https://doi.org/10.2307/365755 Abigail Adams: Domesticity and the American Revolution]. (1979). The New England Quarterly, 52(4), 500–521.
[https://doi.org/10.2307/2712912 A Virtuous Affair: The Correspondence Between Abigail Adams and James Lovell]. (1987). American Quarterly, 39(2), 252–269.
[https://doi.org/10.2307/2936982 The Abigail Industry]. (1988). The William and Mary Quarterly, 45(4), 656–683.
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3787543 Gossip: An Eighteenth-Century Case]. (1989). Journal of Social History, 22(4), 667–683.
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/25081114 Bonds of Friendship: The Correspondence of Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren]. (1996). Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 108, 35–71.
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546532 The Adamses Retire]. (2006). Early American Studies, 4(1), 1–15.

References

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External links

[https://web.stanford.edu/~gelles/ Faculty page], Senior Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Stanford University.
[https://gender.stanford.edu/ The Clayman Institute for Gender Research], Stanford University.
[https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1521/edith-b-gelles/ Distinguished Lecturer Profile], Organization of American Historians.

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Category:21st-century American historians

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Category:Stanford University faculty

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Category:Historians from California

Category:Historians from New York (state)

Category:Cornell University alumni

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Category:Yale University alumni