Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens (Mark Twain and His Circle) - Hardcover

Barbara E. Snedecor (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826222919 ISBN 13: 9780826222916

Publisher: University of Missouri Press, 2023

Synopsis

In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice--as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and so much more. The frail woman often portrayed by scholars and biographers and by Twain, himself, is largely absent in these letters. Instead, Olivia emerges as a nineteenth-century woman who was resilient, energetic, and was the family’s source and center of stability, of Gravity, and of private and public grace in an ever-changing landscape. Mark Twain’s biography recounted in the letters of his wife offers new insights, and her captivating voice engages and enlighten readers.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Snedecor has been a Writing Lecturer, Associate Director of the Writing Program, ESL Director, and Director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College. In addition to editing the second edition of Mark Twain in Elmira, Snedecor has contributed pieces to the Mark Twain Annual and American Literary Realism.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826222919
• ISBN 13: 9780826222916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436