· As a way to challenge some of these preconceptions I had my class read an article by Jean H. Baker who is the author of one of the only scholarly full-length biographies of Mary Todd. In the first part of the article Baker explains what she takes to be the fundamental problem for Lincoln scholars when analyzing their marriage. Quotes by Jean H. Baker. “women were considered instinctual nurses in this generation—the field had received exciting publicity during the Spanish-American War when an Army Nursing Corps had served overseas in the Philippines. Clara Weeks-Shaw, the author of a popular textbook on nursing, promoted the field as “a new activity for women /5. · While Jean H. Baker has done meticulous research and her work is liberally footnoted, reading between the lines one finds a sympathetic account of one woman by another. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of the most misunderstood and reviled women of her day, for behavior that today we might understand as acting out depression, grief, anxiety and www.doorway.ru by:
An excellent biography of President Lincoln's First Lady by Baker (History/Goucher College), author of several books on the Civil War era (Affairs of Party, The Politics of Continuity). Baker's underlying theme is not so much that Mary Todd Lincoln has been a victim of bad press down through the years, but that just about everybody who came in con. tact with her contributed to her misery by. Mary Todd Lincoln by Jean H. Baker, , Norton edition, in English - 1st ed. Presentation by Jean H. Baker on Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, Novem, C-SPAN Biographies have been written about Mary Lincoln as well as her husband. Barbara Hambly 's The Emancipator's Wife () is considered a well-researched historical novel that provides context for her use of over-the-counter drugs containing alcohol and.
Jean H. Baker in MARY TODD LINCOLN reevaluates her position in history and sets aside the stereotype--created by a male-dominated society--of a shrewish, extravagant, and possibly insane woman. This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. “Mary Todd Lincoln remains America’s most provocative First Lady,” writes Jean H. Baker in the first sentence of her preface to the edition of her work, “Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography.”.
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