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Oct 25, 2023 · Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens, middle child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon, was born 27 November 1845 in Elmira—a progressive, nineteenth-century city in western New York. Prior to her birth, Olivia’s parents, with their adopted daughter, nine-year-old Susan Dean Langdon, had moved to Elmira, where Olivia’s father would achieve ...
Feb 13, 2018 · February 13, 2018. The wife and daughters of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine. The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an...
Mark Twain quotations - Olivia Langdon Clemens. She said she never would or could love me -- but she set herself the task of making a Christian of me. I said she would succeed, but that in the meantime she would unwittingly dig a matrimonial pit and end by tumbling into it -- and lo! the prophecy is fulfilled. - Letter to Jane Clemens, February ...
Olivia Langdon Clemens, c.1872 ( Image Courtesy of the Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT.) Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain) and Olivia (“Livy”) Langdon were married on February 2, 1870, in the Langdon family parlor in Elmira, New York.
Olivia “Livy” Langdon Clemens (1845-1904) was the wife of Samuel Clemens. Livy grew up in an affluent, pious, and abolitionist household. Though physically frail, her upbringing afforded her much mental stimulation from many of the leading intellectuals, abolitionists, and feminists that her parents hosted.
Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
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Dec 6, 2013 · Martin Naparsteck, Michele Cardulla. McFarland, Dec 6, 2013 - Literary Criticism - 220 pages. This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an...
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