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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...
Clemens, Olivia Langdon (Livy) (1845–1904) Short Biography: Olivia Langdon, familiarly called “Livy,” was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of wealthy coal merchant Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. The Langdons were strongly religious, reformist, and abolitionist.
When Samuel L. Clemens, the 34-year-old bohemian adventurer cum newly best-selling author married, on February 2, 1870, the 24-year-old refined, religious and wealthy Olivia Langdon, it was probably Clemens who woke up the most surprised - and not with his bride either, but himself.
Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wife of Sam Clemens, was born to a wealthy, abolitionist family in Elmira, New York. She was considered to be frail in health - "It is likely that Clemens was informed early on by Mr. & Mrs. Langdon about the supreme delicacy of Olivia's health" (Trombley 95).
Aug 22, 2016 · The last tour I was lucky enough to experience was led by the great romance of Sam Clemens’s life: his wife and editor, Olivia “Livy” Langdon Clemens. Beautifully costumed in ornate, period-appropriate dress, the character brings to life the loving, intelligent persona who captured the heart of the eccentric author.
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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