Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

JEAN H. BAKER

W. W. Norton & Company, Apr 1, 1989 - Biography & Autobiography - 429 pages

"Rich with superb insights and wonderful anecdotes about 19th-century family and domestic life, it is a complex and moving character study of a woman tragically out of step with her time and place".--Chicago Tribune. Photos.

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Review: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

User Review  - Thea Marlowe - Goodreads

Good book, always love reading about the Lincoln's. Poor Mary does not get good life reviews,a troubled woman no doubt.

Review: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

User Review  - Diane Heath - Goodreads

This is a more sympathetic look at the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. A marked contrast between Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy comes to mind since I read the conversations with Jackie Kennedy (1964 ...

Contents

• Summons Memorial Day Weekend 1994: 19
• The Magic Mineral: 35
• Fourth of July: 49
• Pipe Shop: 63
• Wresting the Alphabet: 79
• The Hokey Pokey: 102
• Fire and Snow: 119
• Easter Sunday: 138
• Reverend Lockhart: 152
• A Very Ancient Grief: 186
• The Wedding: 201
• College Bound: 220
• Termination: 245
• Mothers Effects: 267
• Christmas 1972: 284
• Mamas Pocketbook: 297
• PART: 317
• Revisitations: 335
• Epilogue: 355

About the author

Jean H. Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
• Author: JEAN H. BAKER
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989
• ISBN: 0393305864, 9780393305869
• Length: 429 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women