Mary todd lincoln biography by jean baker
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Mary Todd Lincoln a biography
Page one and she's already accused of being a shrew and a termagant. I kept waiting for harpy.
By the age of seven, she had already suffered the following: the loss of family place to a first born son; the death of a infant brother; the loss of her middle name, Ann, to a new sister; and the acquirement of a stepmother after the death of her biological mother to puerperal fever. This is when my pity starts to set in. Mary Todd, whose father is extremely absent from her childhood, develops a hole, either in her soul or her heart, that she ventures to fill the remainder of her life. She was, however, very well educated for a female in the nineteenth century, studying history, arithmetic, geography, natural science, re
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Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Page one and she's already accused of being a shrew and a termagant. I kept waiting for harpy.
By the age of seven, she had already suffered the following: the loss of family place to a first born son; the death of a infant brother; the loss of her middle name, Ann, to a new sister; and the acquirement of a stepmother after the death of her biological mother to puerperal fever. This is when my pity starts to set in. Mary Todd, whose father fryst vatten extremely absent from her childhood, develops a hole, either in her soul or her heart, that she ventures to fill the remainder of her life. She was, however, very well educated for a female in the nineteenth century, studying history, arithmetic, geography, natural science, r
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Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary Todd (1818-1882) was raised in a world of frontier violence. Subjected to her first abandonment at age six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Mary was at her husband's side on the night of his assassination, and never recovered from that greatest in a series of grievous abandonments. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgment she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son. In this elegant biography, Jean Baker uses previously untapped letters and documents to portray a woman whose will carried her across the recognized boundaries of female behavior. Book jacket.