(03-10-2016, 08:23 PM)L Verge Wrote: Another spurious statement in the book refers to the old females who boarded with Mrs. Surratt always fussing over young Mr Booth when he came to visit. Anna was 22, Nora was about the same age (Susan, help here), Apollonia Dean was ten, and the Holohan daughter was around that age. That only left Mrs. Holohan to fit the description of an old female. I bet Susan H can confirm that Eliza Holohan would have been insulted to be referred to as an "old female."
Back to the Mudds: The author says Mrs, Mudd assisted in setting the broken leg, shaved off Booth's mustache, and helped her husband carry the assassin upstairs. He later states that Mudd fathered nine more children AFTER returning from Fort Jefferson. I thought it was bad enough that he fathered five afterwards -- especially since the story has always been that his health was broken by his imprisonment.
Oh, dear! Mrs. Holohan would probably like to strike that man with her oversized bonnet.
I glanced at the book a couple of days ago, and the first page I saw had Anna Surratt being buried in Baltimore. After that I gave up.
Who Should Write This Book?
