Writing from Bellevue asylum — where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night — a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood in a slave-holding Southern family through the opium-clouded years after her husband’s death, we are let into the inner, intimate world of this brave and fascinating woman. An engrossing mix of fact and fiction, and a dramatic tale filled with passion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity and redemption, this is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life, beginning with an account of the day her eldest son had her declared insane and committed to Bellevue Place, an asylum for women with nervous conditions.
