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Mary Todd Lincoln book talk Sept. 27
News · September 18, 2014
Betty Boles Ellison, author of "The True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography," will speak 2 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Musuem.
This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. Betty Boles Ellison thinks that Mary Todd Lincoln is getting a raw deal from historians.
Mary Todd Lincoln has been portrayed as being crazy, flirty, treacherous, a wild spender and continually causing problems for the president. Ellison says the first lady was frugal, brilliant and outspoken.
Eighty-year-old Ellison is a former reporter and writer for state government. She began to research Mary Todd Lincoln in the 1970s.
“The more research I did, the more I was aware there was much about this woman that had not been told, and much of what was written was in error,” Ellison said. “So I went on a crusade to change that.”
The program is free with paid museum admission. There will be a book signing following the talk.
This program is made possible by the Hoover Presidential Foundation.
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