Quarry Farm, A Thank You Note (A Quarry Farm Testimonial)
Susan K. Harris, noted Twain scholar, talks about her times at Quarry Farm
Author: Susan K. Harris
Elmira Girl Marries Hannibal Boy (And The Rest Is Literary History)
It’s Sam and Livy’s 150th wedding anniversary! Susan K. Harris details the courtship of the famous couple.
Mark Twain, Suffragette Ally & Overprotective Father
In his 1903 essay “Why Not Abolish It?,” Mark Twain argues that the age of consent for extramarital relations should be abolished for women. Twain’s underlying premises are that young women are not responsible enough to make their own decisions about sex, that once a girl has engaged in sexual relations she is “dragged down into the mud and into enduring misery and shame,” and that, worst of all, so is […]