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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860–1936)

Autor/a de The Perfect Tribute

31+ obres 267 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Nom oficial
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Data de naixement
1860-04-02
Data de defunció
1936-08-02
Lloc d'enterrament
Oakland Cemetery, Syracuse, New York, USA
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Lloc de defunció
Syracuse, New York, USA
Llocs de residència
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Professions
short story writer
Biografia breu
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews was born in Mobile, Alabama, a daughter of an Episcopal clergyman, and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1884, she married William Andrews, a lawyer and future judge, with whom she had a son. She became known for writing stories on the adventures of boys engaging in hunting, camping, and fishing. Many of the stories were published in her collections Bob and the Guides (1906) and The Eternal Masculine (1913). She was also known for sentimental and melodramatic magazine fiction and some historical novels. Today she is remembered for her story "The Perfect Tribute," published in Scribner's in July 1906, which depicted President Abraham Lincoln writing and delivering the Gettysburg Address. This highly popular story was assigned reading for multiple generations of school children in the USA. It is largely responsible for the persistent myth that Lincoln hurriedly wrote the Gettysburg Address on the train on his way to Gettysburg. "The Perfect Tribute" was adapted into a 1935 short film and a 1991 television movie.

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This is the book that started the myth that Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address on the train to Gettysburg. Total fiction. It also creates out of whole cloth a story about Lincoln visiting a dying confederate soldier. Touching, but total fiction. Another librarything user has tagged this book as 'Lincoln crap'. That pretty much sums it up. Can't believe that they actually made a movie about this. Read it as an historical literary curiosity, but not as historical fact.
 
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estamm | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 11, 2007 |
This saccharine hagiography exhibits the profound awe that Lincoln sometimes commanded after his assassination.
½
 
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AlexTheHunn | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Mar 24, 2007 |

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Obres
31
També de
5
Membres
267
Popularitat
#86,454
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
55

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