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Mark Twain's adventures in love: How a rough-edged aspiring author courted a beautiful heiress

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
The wife and daughters of Mark Twain.Albert Bigelow Paine

The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an unenthusiastic 22-year-old Olivia Langdon by a completely smitten 32-year-old Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.

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