The American Vandal, a Podcast from The Center for Mark Twain Studies, Launches with Episodes on Bleeding Kansas, The Sandwich Islands, & Dracula
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Wild To Move: Mark Twain in Cleveland
Did Mark Twain almost settle in Cleveland?
Thanksgiving Steeple-Jumping: The Sesquicentennial of Mark Twain’s “Conditional” Engagement
On Thanksgiving Day, 1868, Olivia Langdon “yielded a conditional consent” to Sam Clemens’s third proposal of marriage. They had know each other for less than a year, having been introduced on the occasion of a Charles Dickens reading in New York City the previous New Year’s Eve. Sam had made himself a fixture in Elmira during the Summer and Fall of 1868, going out of his way to visit the Langdons whenever […]