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Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain. Early life. Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, ... Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain. But scarcely six months later, on June 5, 1904, Olivia died in Florence ...

Together they would have four children. Their son died, still a toddler, of diphtheria; a daughter died, age 24, of spinal meningitis; a second daughter, after being diagnosed with severe epilepsy, died of a heart attack at 29. And after 34 years of marriage, he had the sorrow of burying his beloved wife, Livy, in 1904.

The Death of My Wife by Mark Twain. Posted on November 16, 2010 May 8, 2019 by Richard. The Death of My Wife. by Mark Twain. To-morrow will be the thirty-sixth anniversary of our marriage. My wife passed from this life one year and eight months ago, in Florence, Italy, after an unbroken illness of twenty-two months’ duration.

For this resource page, Barbara Snedecor graciously agreed to write about Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain’s wife and profound influence on the author’s life and writings. ... ” (OLC to AHD, 31? May 1870). Olivia’s father died several weeks later, on 6 August 1870. Time passed, and Olivia, now six months pregnant, next served as ...

While at the study, look down the hill on the opposite side of the pond for the statues of Mark Twain and his wife, Olivia Langdon, that sit about 100 yards away. The Mark Twain Exhibit. ... The grave of Mark Twain. After Mark Twain died in Connecticut on April 21, 1910, he was interred in Elmira’s Woodlawn Cemetery in his family’s plot. ...

The wife and daughters of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an unenthusiastic 22-year-old ...

Livy died on June 5, 1904. Her death would leave a hole in the family that neither of his daughters or friends could fill. In their memoirs and letters, Clara, Katy – and particularly the stricken Sam Clemens himself – comment on their inability to take part in everyday life, travel, and writing after Livy’s death.

The death of her daughter Susy in 1896 was a blow from which she never recovered. She died of heart failure in Italy in June 1904. ... Wife of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Biography from "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens (1845-1904), familiarly known as "Livy," was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the ...

Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist. ... was treated like a conquering hero, a man of letters. In 1903, Olivia became ill, and for health reasons, Twain and his wife moved to Italy where Olivia died in Florence in 1904. Their daughter Jean died in 1909.

It had been an unusual courtship. Clemens had met Livy through her brother, Charles (“Charlie”) Langdon, with whom he had become acquainted on the trip he had taken on the steamship Quaker City—the tour through Europe and the Holy Land that eventuated in Twain’s first travelogue, The Innocents Abroad (1869). Charlie had joined Clemens’s inner circle on the Quaker City, a group of ...

Mark Twain, American humorist (comic writer) and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's faults that is humorous even while it probes, often bitterly, the roots of human behavior. ... His writings grew increasingly bitter, especially after his wife's death in 1905. The Man That ...

The New York Times, June 7, 1904 MARK TWAIN'S WIFE DEAD. Mrs. Clemens Expires Suddenly in Italy - Married to the Author in 1870. FLORENCE, June 6. - Mrs. Samuel M. [sic] Clemens, the wife of Mark Twain, the American author and lecturer, died from syncope here last evening.

In 1868, Oliva’s brother Charles, called “Charley” took a trip to the Holy Land. At the time Samuel Clemens, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was working as a correspondent for the nineteenth-century San Francisco newspaper, the Alta. He was writing “serio-comic” articles about New York and requested ...

Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain. But scarcely six months later, on June 5, 1904, Olivia died in Florence from heart failure. She was cremated, and her ashes are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. Samuel, who was devastated by her death, died in 1910; he is interred beside her. [5]

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, achieved significant financial success during his lifetime, particularly as a celebrated author and public figure. While exact figures from the 19th century are difficult to ascertain, estimates suggest that Twain's net worth fluctuated considerably over the years, reaching as high as $1.5 million by ...

Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the famous American author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, New York to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. Her childhood home from 1847 to 1862 was the building, that is now at 413 Lake Street, Elmira, NY.

--Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910), in a letter to a close friend after his favorite daughter Susy, aged 24, died of meningitis while her parents were abroad. Mark Twain and his wife never returned to the home where she died.

In a letter to his wife, Olivia, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) conveys his grief over the recent death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter, Susy. Susy had suffered from mental instability, seemingly triggered by intense homesickness while she was a freshman at Bryn Mawr and had been receiving treatment at the Clemens’ home in Hartford. Twain ...

I am a man without a country. Wherever Livy was, that was my country. --Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910), after the death of his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, in a letter to her brother.

Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens died on November 19, 1962. She was a concert singer and played the piano. ... Mark Twain's wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, died from heart failure in Florence ...