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Mary Lincoln : biography of a marriage
- Title
- Mary Lincoln : biography of a marriage / Ruth Painter Randall.
- Author
- Randall, Ruth Painter.
- Publication
- Boston, Little, Brown [©1953]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | 1084.96.588.74 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 555 pages illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- The truth about the President's wife has for years been hidden under a mountain of myth built up largely by Lincoln's biographer and law partner, William H. Herndon. Now for the first time the true woman beneath that myth is presented in a warmly sympathetic biography based on new research. When the veil of legend surrounding her is torn aside, an entirely new picture of a woman and a marriage emerges.
- Subject
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 > Marriage
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 > Marriage
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography
- Marriage
- Presidents' spouses
- Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography
- Presidents > United States > Spouses
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [445]-516) Bibliography: p. [517]-529.
- Contents
- Young Mary in young Springfield -- Joshua Speed's friend -- "Mind-Education-Raising" -- Broken engagement -- "I awfully forebode" -- A duel prevented but not a wedding -- "Four dollars a week" -- "Women and oxen" -- "The happiest stages of life" -- "Tears on the jury" -- In-law problems -- "Little Eddie" -- "Good neighbors" -- "Fizzle-gigs and Fire-works" -- Widening circle -- Tangled Tales and Good-by Springfield -- "Pits and Pinnacles of Change" -- "Empaneled to convict" -- Attention of the President's wife -- Further activities of the First Lady -- "Flub Dubs" with complications -- White House family -- "Furnace of affliction" -- Dark whisperings -- Telegrams -- "If he is re-elected" -- As ardent as an abolitionist -- City point -- Last ride together -- "Without him" -- Herndon lectures on Ann Rutledge -- The old-clothes scandal -- "Without Taddie": Insanity? -- "Dear Lewis."
- LCCN
- 52012621
- OCLC
- ocm00964413
- 964413
- SCSB-326180
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library