The Emancipator's Wife (A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (951 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553585657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 816 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"HIGHLY Fictionalized History!" according to Spock. Read 1HIGHLY Fictionalized History! Spock Read 140 pages and have stopped. Reads like something for 4th graders! There is actual dialogue in the person of Mary Todd Lincoln. Are there accounts of her conversations anywhere? In my copy of the book there is no sourcing given for anything. I have read a number other H. 0 pages and have stopped. Reads like something for HIGHLY Fictionalized History! Spock Read 140 pages and have stopped. Reads like something for 4th graders! There is actual dialogue in the person of Mary Todd Lincoln. Are there accounts of her conversations anywhere? In my copy of the book there is no sourcing given for anything. I have read a number other H. th graders! There is actual dialogue in the person of Mary Todd Lincoln. Are there accounts of her conversations anywhere? In my copy of the book there is no sourcing given for anything. I have read a number other H. "Research, details provide context for Mary Todd Lincoln's story" according to Amazon Customer. Barbara Hambly's "The Emancipator's Wife" is a remarkably well researched fictional narrative of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. That she lived with mental illness is not disputed - ample evidence exists to suggest that she was bi-polar. However, history has damned her for d. Excellent--Historical Fiction at its Best Hambly's Benjamin January series is fantastic, and I've read each one as it has come out. Her genuine talent for research and for interweaving it with fiction and into a story makes her one of the best historical fiction writers I've had the pleasure to read--and I've read
From Publishers Weekly Hambly (A Free Man of Color, etc.) has a knack for bringing historical figures to life in all their flawed humanity. But her emotional problems hobble her from the start and worsen over the years under the tremendous strain of political life and with the terrible loss of three of her four sons as well as her husband. . All rights reserved. This touching portrait of Mary Todd, a brilliant but troubled belle in Kentucky when she meets Abraham Lincoln in 1839, recounts Mary's personal struggles and triumphs and describes the general state of women in the 19th century, as well as supplies an evenhanded overview of the political and practical issues surrounding the emancipation of the slaves. Despite a jarring abruptness to some of the changes in point of view and the slow pace of the nar
Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayals–both real and imagined–of family and friends. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words “Love Is Eternal.” But their happiness won’t last nearly so long. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Yet it is in the years to