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Janis Cooke Newman
May 20th. Mrs Mary Lincoln admitted today - from Chicago - Age 56 - Widow of ex-President Lincoln - declared insane by the Cook County Court May 19th - 1875. This is the Patient Progress Reports for Bellevue Place Sanatorium.Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son, Mary Lincoln resolves to tell her own story in order to preserve and to prove her own sanity. Mary Todd Lincoln the original 'First Lady' is a figure of some notoriety in the British readers introduced to her for the first time will encounter a fascinating, complex and captivating heroine of history.
January 1, 2009 by Myrmidon Books
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2009,
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Civil War,
Contemporary,
Fiction