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When Samuel L. Clemens, the 34-year-old bohemian adventurer cum newly best-selling author married, on February 2, 1870, the 24-year-old refined, religious and wealthy Olivia Langdon, it was probably Clemens who woke up the most surprised - and not with his bride either, but himself. Gone was the irreverent skeptic, full of whiskey, happily.
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"I think I have about decided what we shall do about building," Olivia Langdon Clemens wrote to her husband, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in December 1871. He was on a multi-state lecture tour, two months after the couple had moved to Hartford, Connecticut, with their infant son.
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Olivia Langdon Clemens: Wife to Mark Twain By Geri Walton | July 20, 2020 | 0 Olivia Langdon Clemens, often called "Livy" by her husband, was born on 27 November 1845 to Jervis Langdon, a wealthy businessman, and his wife, Olivia Lewis Langdon, in Elmira, New York. The family was religious, reformist, and abolitionist.
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Mark Twain Twain's Children Langdon Clemens Langdon Clemens was the first-born child - and the only son - born to Sam and Olivia Clemens. He was born prematurely on Nov. 7‚ 1870‚ and continued to be weak and sickly throughout his short life. He died of diphtheria on June 2‚ 1872‚ at the age of only 19 months. Twain Quote
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OLIVIA LANGDON CLEMENS. She said she never would or could love me -- but she set herself the task of making a Christian of me. I said she would succeed, but that in the meantime she would unwittingly dig a matrimonial pit and end by tumbling into it -- and lo! the prophecy is fulfilled. - Letter to Jane Clemens, February 1869.
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Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 - June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain . Early life Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, New York, to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon.
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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.
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Martin Naparsteck dismisses Willis's book for this reason and claims his account, Mrs. Mark Twain: The Story of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904 (2014), is the first full-length biography of Olivia, but Twain dominates most of his narrative, appearing on nearly every page, and the text is sprinkled with a few minor but annoying factual errors.
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Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens, middle child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon, was born 27 November 1845 in Elmira—a progressive, nineteenth-century city in western New York.
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"I Am Woman's Rights": Olivia Langdon Clemens and Her Feminist Circle UST WHO WAS Olivia Louise Langdon tory in her depiction of Olivia as a conventional, idol- I Clemens? Several versions have been given ized, hypochondriac who "believed it was her 'life «I during the past eighty years of Twain biography; work' to 'tame' [Mark Twain]" (47).
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Twain Starts a Family and Moves to Hartford. After courting for two years‚ Sam Clemens and Olivia (Livy) Langdon were married in 1870. They settled in Buffalo‚ New York‚ where Sam had become a partner‚ editor, and writer for the daily newspaper the Buffalo Express.While they were living in Buffalo‚ their first child‚ Langdon Clemens‚ was born.
Mark Twain 's wife, Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens (Olivia Clemens), 1873. Mark
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 much more.
Olivia Langdon Clemens Wife to Mark Twain Geri Walton
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 an enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and much more. The frail woman often portrayed by scholars, biographers, and Twain.
Olivia Langdon Clemens Wife to Mark Twain Geri Walton
The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an unenthusiastic 22-year-old Olivia Langdon by a completely smitten 32-year-old.
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During the trip, Langdon had shown Clemens as picture of his sister, Olivia Langdon. [4] On New Year's Eve 1867, Sam Clemens and Livy Langdon were formally introduced, beginning a courtship which would result in marriage on February 2, 1870. [5]
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Olivia Langdon Clemens was born Olivia Louise Langdon on Nov. 27, 1845, in Elmira, N.Y., the daughter of Jervis and Olivia Langdon. She had a younger brother, Charles, and an adopted older sister, Susan. Olivia was called "Livy" by her friends and family, and by her husband, Samuel L. Clemens, whom she married on Feb. 2, 1870.