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Mary Todd Lincoln : a biography

Author: Jean H Baker
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A biography Mary Todd Lincoln, discussing her childhood as an orphan in Kentucky, her marriage to Abraham Lincoln, their children and family life, the criticism she endured as first lady, and the rumors of mental instability that plagued her later years.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Mary Todd Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Mary Todd Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jean H Baker
ISBN: 9780393333039 0393333035
OCLC Number: 227016448
Description: xxiii, 429 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Preface to the 2008 edition --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
First family : Parkers and Todds --
A second family --
Mary Todd's Lexington --
Springfield courtship --
Domestic portrait : the Springfield years --
The politics of marriage --
First Lady --
A vanishing circle --
Mrs. Widow Lincoln : the first years --
Exile and return --
Trial and confinement --
Last years.
Responsibility: Jean H. Baker.
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A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary Todd Lincoln fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the  Read more...

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