Tag: Mary Todd Lincoln

• April 4, 2013

  The Little-Told Story of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

  Cross posted at Ms. As the DVD of Spielberg’s latest epic, Lincoln, hit shelves last week, the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. was telling a different Lincoln story: that of Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker, former slave Elizabeth Keckley. Keckley, author of Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in…