5/21/2023 0 Comments Mary by janis cooke newman![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Newman makes a good choice in telling the story through Mary's eyes and drawing readers into her perspective. Not introspective and demonstrative, Mary presents a challenge for any historical novelist. After the 1860 election, the narrative returns to accepted history, dominated by Mary's crushing misery after a son's death in 1862, her husband's assassination and another son's death in 1872, punctuated by lavish shopping expeditions and an occasional psychotic break. , portrays Mary Todd Lincoln (1818– 1882) as a proto-feminist: she seduces poor Illinois lawyer Lincoln kick-starts his career draws his attention to the slavery issue corrects his elocution before the Lincoln-Douglas debates and lobbies behind the scenes (she also has an affair). Newman, author of the memoir The Russian Word for Snow Abraham Lincoln's widow was committed by her son in 1875 kept awake by the bedlam of her fellow inmates, she takes up a pen. ![]()
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