Category - Fiction / Juvenile Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 10 days ago
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2008
Seller Description
On the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley. But the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln’s close friendship with the black seamstress. With vivid detail and emotional power, Ann Rinaldi delves into the childhoods of two fascinating women who became devoted friends amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration. Includes an author’s note, a reader’s guide, and a bibliography.
Additional Information
An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9780152063986
Publisher Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dre...
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