A little. Having read a biography of Abigail Adams, I know that her daughter-in-law married her son while he was serving a government post abroad. Louisa Adams followed John Quincy Adams to various posts around Europe, including an extended time in Russia. Louisa Adams was not particularly happy in Russia, and Abigail Adams had no sympathetic ear for her grievances, believing that a woman should suffer all things without complaint.
After reading the descriptive flap of my chosen biography of Louisa Adams, I also know that she was born in London to an American father and an English mother and that she and John Quincy Adams had a complicated marriage. A quick scan of Wikipedia confirms that she is the only other foreign-born First Lady beside our current First Lady, Melania Trump, and adds that Louisa Adams suffered from migraine headaches, fainting spells, and multiple miscarriages.
The book I have chosen to teach me about the life of Louisa Adams is Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas, the newest biography of the First Lady, published just last year.
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