Mary Lincoln: non-feminist?

[Eva Elisabeth]

This is how Jane Grey Swisshelm recalled one White House reception: "When I came to Mrs. Lincoln, she did not catch the name at first, and asked to hear it again, then repeated it, and a sudden glow of pleasure lit her face, as she held out her hand and said how very glad she was to see me. I objected to giving her my hand because my black glove would soil her white one; but she said: 'Then I shall preserve the glove to remember a great pleasure, for I have long wished to see you.'...I understood at once that I had met one with whom I was in sympathy. No politeness could have summoned that sudden flash of pleasure...I recognized Mrs. Lincoln as a loyal, liberty-loving woman, more staunch even than her husband in opposition to the Rebellion and its cause, and as my very dear friend for life."
(Jane Grey Swisshelm: "Half a Century", p. 237.)
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