![]() ![]() Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words Love Is Eternal.īut their happiness won't last nearly so long. ![]() Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. ![]()
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