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	Mark Twain Studies
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Olivia Louise Langdon are married in the parlor of the Langdon home in Elmira, New York.
		Olivia L. Clemens is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
	www.elmira.edu /academics/MarkTwain/mt_history.shtml (511 words)

	Mark Twain: A Biography, by Albert Bigelow Paine (chapter64)
		Olivia Langdon was twenty-two years old at this time, delicate as the miniature he had seen, fragile to look upon, though no longer with the shattered health of her girlhood.
		Olivia Langdon, on her part, was at first dazed and fascinated, rather than attracted, by this astonishing creature, so unlike any one she had ever known.
		Young Langdon had been especially anxious to bring his distinguished Quaker City friend and his own people together, and two days before Christmas Samuel Clemens was invited to dine at the hotel.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /t/twain/paine/chapter64.html (1078 words)

	Mark Twain Himself Pictorial, Mark Twain in Elmira, Mark Twain in Eruption Hitherto, Mark Twain & John Bull British, Mark Twain's Autobiography (2, Ma
		(Twain, Biography-Twain, Samuel L. Clemens, Olivia Langdon, American Humorists, Ada Menken, Artemus Ward, Journalism)
		Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) Intro: Paine, Albert Bigelow.
		Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens]; Edited By Bernard Devoto.
	www.riverow.com /000566.htm (804 words)

	REVIEW - The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
		In this introduction is stated the author's thesis: that Olivia Langdon and Samuel Clemens were extremely different from each other, and that through their reading and writing they were able to resolve their differences and forge a meaningful relationship that would last a long time and weather many difficulties.
		Clemens, in his letters to both Olivia and to her father, appeals to their sense of propriety and piety as he takes on the guise of the spiritual quester, one who needs their support and prayers in order to clean up his life.
		Although Langdon was ill much of the time that she was writing in her commonplace book, she rarely complains; she was, according to Harris, preparing "herself to deal with life crises, and her book is one index to her search for frameworks that would aid and sustain her when these came" (15).
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews/har1-rev.html (2418 words)

	Clemens Ancestors - Genealogy
		24 March 1847 in Hannibal, MO Samuel Langhorne Clemens married Olivia Langdon 2 February 1870
		Generation 1 is Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain.
		The other numbers refer to generations before Samuel L. Clemens.
	www.marktwainmuseum.org /CLEMENS.html (170 words)

	Clemens Ancestors - Genealogy
		24 March 1847 in Hannibal, MO Samuel Langhorne Clemens married Olivia Langdon 2 February 1870
		Generation 1 is Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain.
		The other numbers refer to generations before Samuel L. Clemens.
	www.marktwainmuseum.org /CLEMENS.html (170 words)

	1890-1947
		1904 - Fatality / Olivia L. Clemens - June 5th, 1904: "Olivia [Livy] Langdon Clemens, S.L.C's wife, dies in Florence, Italy."
		That left the newly discovered helium as the only gas still unliquefied." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World, p.
		1898 - Radium and Polonium - "Marie Sklodowska [Polish-born] and Pierre Currie discover the elements Radium and Polonium."
	mirrorh.com /timelinead19.html (170 words)

	REVIEW - The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
		Another connection between Twain's life and fiction remains unestablished in the entry on "Letter from the Recording Angel." The essay mentions Andrew Langdon as though he were merely a fictional target of Twain's satire against hypocrisy, when in fact Langdon was also the first cousin of Twain's wife, Olivia Clemens.
		Samuel L. Clemens arguably was and remains the most important writer yet produced by the United States, an author whose significance was vast during his lifetime and is still growing more than eighty years after his death." It then goes on to list Twain's diverse occupations during his life.
		It also lists the editions that are currently the most authoritative--the ones prepared by the Mark Twain Project and published by the University of California Press--and identifies the correspondences between the editions in the inexpensive Mark Twain Library series and the more heavily annotated volumes from which they are derived.
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews/mte.html (2304 words)

	Mark Twain Forum book reviews
		The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
		Hurm, Gerd, Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens's Fictions (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003)
		Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews (2304 words)

	Pages in the History of Elmira Mark Twain: Legendary Storyteller
		In 1868, the Langdons invited Twain to their Elmira home, which once stood on the corner of Church and Main Streets.
		It was here that Mark Twain and Olivia spent their summers for more than 20 years.
		His name is prominent throughout Elmira, including the Clemens Performing Arts Center and Clemens Center Parkway.
	www.ci.elmira.ny.us /history/mark_twain.html (2304 words)

	PBS - Mark Twain: The Gilded Age: 1869-1871
		At 34 years of age, Clemens entered into the longest and most faithful contract of his life: his marriage to Olivia Langdon Clemens.
		She was the daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the country’s wealthy elite.
		She would also furnish him her family’s home in Elmira, New York, a place where he visited often and wrote many of his best-loved books.
	www.pbs.org /marktwain/scrapbook/05_gilded_age (142 words)

	REVIEW - The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
		Another connection between Twain's life and fiction remains unestablished in the entry on "Letter from the Recording Angel." The essay mentions Andrew Langdon as though he were merely a fictional target of Twain's satire against hypocrisy, when in fact Langdon was also the first cousin of Twain's wife, Olivia Clemens.
		It also lists the editions that are currently the most authoritative--the ones prepared by the Mark Twain Project and published by the University of California Press--and identifies the correspondences between the editions in the inexpensive Mark Twain Library series and the more heavily annotated volumes from which they are derived.
		Although this article is only two-and-a-half pages long, it is fairly thorough and should be invaluable to the general reader who is trying to evaluate and make sense of the various editions available--a situation that can only become more baffling in the next few years as electronic editions of Twain's writings become available.
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews/mte.html (2304 words)

	Mark Twain: "Cradle Skeptic"
		During the period Clemens courted Olivia Langdon, Cross notes, Twain claimed to be a Christian in order to be acceptable to the Langdon household, but after the marriage, "Twain refused to participate in Bible readings and devotions on the grounds that he considered it would be hypocritical for him to do so" (10).
		Cross claims that the religious skepticism found in Twain's last writings can be seen in his "most popular novels" (31).
		Long, according to Cross, does not find Twain a skeptic but a Deist because of one comment Twain made to Albert Bigelow Paine: "There is, of course, a great master mind, but it cares nothing for our happiness or our unhappiness" (6).
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/filelist/skeptic.html (2304 words)

	REVIEW - The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
		Another connection between Twain's life and fiction remains unestablished in the entry on "Letter from the Recording Angel." The essay mentions Andrew Langdon as though he were merely a fictional target of Twain's satire against hypocrisy, when in fact Langdon was also the first cousin of Twain's wife, Olivia Clemens.
		Twain's purpose, according to Macnaughton, was to call "attention to the burlesque intention of both the specific passage in question and the piece as a whole" (172-173).
		Another entry that is very good concerns the editions of Twain's works, identifying his publishers at different periods of his life.
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews/mte.html (2304 words)

	Mark Twain
		From the parent site, "Mark Twain in Hartford," comes this detailed site describing, "through personal letters and commentary, the very significant part Olivia Langdon Clemens...played in (Mark Twain's) career as well as his personal life." Teachers and students will discover several interesting and little-known facts about the author.
		Visitors are treated to Twain's observations on the art of public speaking and critical appraisals of his oratorical skills rendered by his contemporaries.
		At the end of the document are links that offer discussions on Twain landmarks in New York City, literary criticism, issues of racism and Huckleberry Finn, and the similarity and differences between Twain and Walt Whitman.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /awg_twain_mark.htm (4069 words)

	Elmira, New York (Cities)
		Samuel Clemens married Elmira native Olivia Langdon and they spent their summers here until Haley's Comet took Samuel away.
		Elmira is located in Chemung County 60 miles west of Binghamton near the Pennslyvania state line between Corning and Waverly along Highway 17 on the banks of the Chemung River and in the Western Region of the state.
		Elmira is part of the Elmira, New York metro area.
	www.ohwy.com /ny/e/elmira.htm (98 words)

	Mark Twain Forum book reviews
		The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
		Hurm, Gerd, Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens's Fictions (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003)
		Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews (98 words)

	Guide to the Ida Langdon Papers,1902-1964
		Description of Twain's love and courtship of Olivia Langdon; their marriage; Quarry Farm (Elmira) vacations; the building of the Twain study; writing in the study; family fun; efforts to build an "Adam" statue in Elmira; anecdotes; burial in Elmira.
		Papers, which pertain to Samuel Clemens, particularly to his life in Elmira, New York, include letters to Ida Langdon from Henry Nash Smith, Orville Prescott, and others regarding her talks on Twain, gifts of Twain memorabilia to the University of California, certain of Twain's writings, and related subjects.
		Ida Langdon taught English and was Chairman of the English Department at Elmira College.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMM02490.html (1115 words)

	Mark Twain Forum book reviews
		The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
		Hurm, Gerd, Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens's Fictions (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003)
		Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority
	www.yorku.ca /twainweb/reviews (1115 words)

	Charles Dudley Warner: Primary and Secondary Bibliography
		Kruse, Horst H. "A Matter of Style: How Olivia Langdon Clemens and Charles Dudley Warner Tried to Team and to Tame the Genius of Mark Twain." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 72.2 (1999): 232-50.
		Warner, Charles Dudley, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle.
		Warner, Charles Dudley, Hamilton Wright Mable, and Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/warnerbib.html (1833 words)

	dwqab10.txt
		You sneer, you ships that pass me by You must never ask for wages Young people--school-girls in particular THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN by Albert Bigelow Paine [mt8bg10.txt]#3463 It was the 2d of February, 1870, that Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon were married.
		TWAIN'S LETTERS V6 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine[mt6lt10.txt] #3198 That doctor had half an idea that there is something the matter with my brain.
		A few days before, he sat down one night and wrote to Jim Gillis, away out in the Tuolumne Hills, and told him of all his good fortune, recalling their days at Angel's Camp, and the absurd frog story, which he said had been the beginning of his happiness.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03/dwqab10.txt (1833 words)

	MARK TWAIN, 1835-1910: The Prince And The Pauper - The Innocents Abroad
		Its success gave Twain enough financial security to marry Olivia Langdon in 1870.
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family.
		His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which gained him wide popularity, and poked fun at both American and European prejudices and manners.
	www.ompersonal.com.ar /omlibrary/twain.htm (376 words)

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