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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860–1936)

Autore di The Perfect Tribute

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Nome legale
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Data di nascita
1860-04-02
Data di morte
1936-08-02
Luogo di sepoltura
Oakland Cemetery, Syracuse, New York, USA
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Luogo di morte
Syracuse, New York, USA
Luogo di residenza
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Attività lavorative
short story writer
Breve biografia
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 | 2 altre recensioni | Oct 11, 2007 |
This saccharine hagiography exhibits the profound awe that Lincoln sometimes commanded after his assassination.
½
 
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AlexTheHunn | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 24, 2007 |

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Opere
31
Opere correlate
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Utenti
267
Popolarità
#86,454
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
3
ISBN
55

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