Synopsis
Skandera-Trombley combines a biographical study of Clemens' life with his wife, Olivia Langdon, and their three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean, with new readings of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Personal Recollection of Joan of Arc . She contends that Clemens intentionally surrounded himself with women, and that his capacity to produce exten
From the Author
Mark Twain, Women and Huckleberry Finn: A Potent Cocktail!!Mark Twain in the Company of Women resulted from an adventure
I embarked upon involving 100 original Twain letters that
mysteriously reappeared after an absence of over 80 years.The
Clara Letters, as they've come to be called, heralded a new
era of Twain biography (not to mention that the lucky buyer
sold them for a quarter of a million dollars at auction).In
my book, for the first time the people most important to
Twain, the women in his family, are discussed in relation to
Twain's emotional life and his writing.My biography has won a
Choice award for excellence and has been widely reviewed. LS-T
