Tag: Mary Todd Lincoln

  • Review of “Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker”

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    Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini is a historical fiction novel about Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley. The story starts in the run up to the 1860 election with Elizabeth working as a dress designer and maker for the wives of the various powerful men in and around Washington D.C. One of her more influential and close…