Mary's Reputation

[Gene C]

She tried, but for the most part - rebuffed. Southerners didn' trust her since she married Lincoln and was from IL and sent her oldest son to yankee schools. She had a bit of a haughty attitude. She had an unusually close relationship (while she was in the white house) with her black seamstress, Elizabeth Keckley. Northerners didn't trust her since she had relatives in the southern army (northern too) was from KY, and her family owned slaves. I think her fancy gowns tended to be a bit low cut for someone of her age and that didn't help. She had a bit of a popularity rivalry with Kate Chase, and her jealousy regarding her husband didn't help her any either.

I haven't read the Mary Lincoln Enigma, does it adress any of this?