Mary Todd Lincoln's Cell

[Eva Elisabeth]

(07-04-2015 12:38 PM)L Verge Wrote:  For a woman such as Mary, who had been active all of her life and who enjoyed traveling, confinement in a small space (no matter how elegant) would have been very difficult and, I suspect, would have led to some of her "mental issues."

Laurie, that is my very opinion, too. Whatever golden the cage - it would right drive me mad and insane to be locked into a room at night spied on through the door slats, my mail being censored, and not allowed to travel freely.