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Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wife of Sam Clemens, was born to a wealthy, abolitionist family in Elmira, New York. She was considered to be frail in health - "It is likely that Clemens was informed early on by Mr. & Mrs. Langdon about the supreme delicacy of Olivia's health" (Trombley 95). The Langdons experimented with a variety of health ...
Olivia “Livy” Langdon Clemens (1845-1904) was the wife of Samuel Clemens. Livy grew up in an affluent, pious, and abolitionist household. Though physically frail, her upbringing afforded her much mental stimulation from many of the leading intellectuals, abolitionists, and feminists that her parents hosted.
Clemens, Olivia Langdon (Livy) (1845–1904) Short Biography. Olivia Langdon, familiarly called “Livy,” was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of wealthy coal merchant Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. The Langdons were strongly religious, reformist, and abolitionist. Livy’s education, in the 1850s and 1860s, was a ...
18 de jan. de 2018 · remains firmly ensconced in American culture more than a century after his death. But that image often concealed a soft heart—at least when it came to the love of his life, his wife, Olivia, whom he called Livy. Twain—or Samuel Clemens—met her in 1867 after he and her brother Charley Langdon found themselves fellow travelers on board the ...
25 de mar. de 2024 · My own odyssey with Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens began not with a photograph but with a statue—one commissioned in 2004 by the incoming freshman class at Elmira College in western New York. As director of the college’s international Center for Mark Twain Studies there, I was tasked with bringing to fruition the class’s wishes.
Olivia Langdon Clemens. Olivia Langdon Clemens ( Elmira, 27 de noviembre de 1845 - Florencia, 5 de junio de 1904) fue una escritora estadounidense, editora de su esposo, el autor Samuel Langhorne Clemens, más conocido como Mark Twain, y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres.
6 de dez. de 2013 · This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become the best known American in the world.
