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President Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd would serve him this cake while the couple courted. It would go on to become one ...
Mary’s getting a new cabinet! The Tony-winning production of Oh, Mary! has just announced that joining Jinkx Monsoon in her eight-week stint as Mary Todd Lincoln will be Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie ...
Lifestyle Mary Todd Lincoln seen in new light after ‘remarkable’ letter written by former First Lady discovered: expert By Christine Rousselle, Fox Business Published April 30, 2024, 11:05 p.m. ET ...
Escola began to imagine a "second chapter" for Mary Todd Lincoln, an idea that evolved slowly over 12 years. In 2024, Oh, Mary!, starring Escola in the title role, debuted off-Broadway.
Between the clever plot points (which I won’t ruin here in any detail), I started musing on what Mary Todd Lincoln would actually have thought of this posthumous treatment. On thing is for sure.
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a beribboned shrew and a spendthrift lunatic who made Abraham Lincoln's life "a living hell" or was she a strong-willed, bereaved woman who in the space of a few years had ...
The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln By Mark E. Neely and R. Gerald McMurtry Southern Illinois University Press, 217 pages, $19.95 The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln By Samuel A. Schreiner Dona… ...
First lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who also experienced the deaths of three of her children and the assassination of her husband, was a troubled figure in 19th-century American history. Later in life ...
Mary Todd Lincoln portrait, and legend behind it, are frauds Story behind portrait was part of scam By Patricia Cohen New York Times,February 12, 2012, 12:00 a.m.
Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s surviving wife, was declared insane after a case brought by her son Robert. But she was determined to escape the institution she was placed in.
An 1864 letter from Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, is for sale for $15,000 by The Raab Collection in Philadelphia. It shows a rarely seen side of the first lady, said an expert.