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Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker a novel

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fictio...

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Main Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Corporate Authors: Recorded Books, LLC.
Other Authors: Moore, Christina. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2013.
Subjects:
Keckley, Elizabeth, > approximately 1818-1907 > Fiction.
Lincoln, Mary Todd, > 1818-1882 > Fiction.
Women dressmakers > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Fiction.
Historical fiction > United States.
Audiobooks.
Summary: New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who would become a dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. A character largely forgotten to history, Keckley blossoms under Chiaverini's masterful writing.--Publisher's web site
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Subtitle from container.
In container (17 cm.).
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description: 12 sound discs (ca. 14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781470327583
1470327589
Author Notes: Jennifer Chiaverini is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. She used to be a writing instructor at Penn State University and Edgewood College. She is the author of the Elm Creek Quilts series and four volumes of quilt patterns inspired by her novels. She is also the designer of the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines from Red Rooster Fabrics. Among her most recent works, is the New York Times bestselling novel, Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.

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