A Rose for Mrs. Lincoln

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While we are busy debating on another thread as to whether or not Lincoln loved Ann Rutledge better than Mary Todd or if he preferred male companionship overall, I decided to go out on another tangent.

Is anyone familiar with a biography of Mrs. Lincoln written in 1970 by Dawn Langley Simmons and entitled A Rose for Mrs. Lincoln? Try as I may, I cannot find sample pages or a review of it, only a mention that it is sympathetic to Mary.

I stumbled across reference to it while trying to find more information on the Mary Todd Lincoln garden rose (she also has a lemon yellow daylily named after her). The roses also led me to the White House gift shop where the First Lady's china pattern has been reproduced. See whitehousegiftsandapparel.com

I also found this very appropriate description of Mrs. Lincoln's Red Rose:

"Red Rose"

The red rose, symbolic of love and desire, embodies Mary Todd Lincoln’s vivacious and impulsive personality. Her life was one of triumph combined with tragedy, just as the beauty of the rose is tempered by its thorns.