- 436 pages
- English
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About this book
In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice—as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and much more. The frail woman often portrayed by scholars, biographers, and Twain himself is largely absent in these letters. Instead, Olivia (who Twain affectionately referred to as "Gravity" in their early correspondence) emerges as a resilient and energetic nineteenth-century woman, her family's source and center of stability, and a well of private and public grace in an ever-changing landscape. Mark Twain's biography recounted in Olivia's letters offers new insights, and her captivating voice is certain to engage and enlighten readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Letter Repositories
- About the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter One: 1864–1869: Adolescent Frailty; Young Adulthood; Courtship
- Chapter Two: 1870–1872: Marriage; Motherhood; Death, Birth, Death, and Death; Hartford
- Chapter Three: 1873–1877: England and Scotland; Hartford; Elmira
- Chapter Four: 1878: Germany; Switzerland; Mr. Twichell’s Visit
- Chapter Five: 1878–1879: Italy; Germany; France; Belgium and Holland; England; Home
- Chapter Six: 1880–1885: Hartford; Mississippi River Travels; Paige Compositor; Charles L. Webster and Company; Mark Twain and Cable
- Chapter Seven: 1886–1890: Grace King; Financial Decline; Deaths
- Chapter Eight: 1891–1892: Matters of Health; Germany, Switzerland, Italy; Villa Viviana
- Chapter Nine: 1893: Young Adult Daughters; Looming Financial Disaster; Henry Huttleston Rogers
- Chapter Ten: 1894: Bankruptcy; France; The End of the Machine
- Chapter Eleven: 1895: Elmira; Hartford Rental; Overland; Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia
- Chapter Twelve: 1896–1899: India; South Africa; Death of Olivia Susan Clemens
- Chapter Thirteen: 1900–1904: Return to America; 14 West 10th Street; Riverdale on the Hudson; Florence, Italy
- Afterword: Death of Olivia Langdon Clemens
- Bibliography
- Index