Lincoln & Herndon

[RJNorton]

(07-11-2014 06:44 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  Also, I have never read that account of the night before the wedding. This is the night that the estimable Prof. Burlingame speculates that Mary spent seducing AL into bed, causing him to panic the next morning to the extent that he felt compelled to marry her that same day.(Abraham Lincoln, A Life, Vol I)

Has anyone read the book Mary by Janis Cooke Newman? It is fiction. I have not read it but was told that not only does the author have Mary "tricking" Abraham into marriage but also describes a torrid, but extremely brief, love affair Mary supposedly had with William Wood. Possibly someone who has read it can comment on whether or not what I've heard about the book is true.