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By Alexandra Deryn. (WENY) -- Former Elmira College faculty member Barbara Snedecor recently edited the University of Missouri Press book, "Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens.". Snedecor has devoted years of her life into this book after previously serving as the Director of the Center for Mark Twain studies at Elmira College.


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"I think I have about decided what we shall do about building," Olivia Langdon Clemens wrote to her husband, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in December 1871. He was on a multi-state lecture tour, two months after the couple had moved to Hartford, Connecticut, with their infant son.


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Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens, middle child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon, was born 27 November 1845 in Elmira—a progressive, nineteenth-century city in western New York.


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Clemens, Olivia Langdon (Livy) (1845-1904) Short Biography: Olivia Langdon, familiarly called "Livy," was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of wealthy coal merchant Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. The Langdons were strongly religious, reformist, and abolitionist. Livy's education, in the 1850s and 1860s, was a.


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Olivia Langdon Clemens at about 24 Overstaying His Welcome Twain saw the photo of Olivia, an ivory miniature, in 1867 during his five-month cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. He had made friends with Olivia's younger brother, Charles Langdon, and caught a glimpse of her image in his stateroom.


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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, New York, to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon.


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both Langdon daughters, Susan and Olivia, studied there. Before their marriage, as early as their first meeting in Elmira, Olivia knew that Twain intended to propose. From that point on, Olivia composed the movements of Twain's suit Olivia made Twain prove his sincerity by writing one hundred and eighty-four courtship letters.


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The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an unenthusiastic 22-year-old Olivia Langdon by a completely smitten 32-year-old.


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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.


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In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice—as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and much more.


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Olivia Langdon Clemens was born Olivia Louise Langdon on Nov. 27, 1845, in Elmira, N.Y., the daughter of Jervis and Olivia Langdon. She had a younger brother, Charles, and an adopted older sister, Susan. Olivia was called "Livy" by her friends and family, and by her husband, Samuel L. Clemens, whom she married on Feb. 2, 1870.


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Clemens's courtship of Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a prosperous businessman from Elmira, N.Y., was an ardent one, conducted mostly through correspondence. They were married in February 1870.


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In this new volume of letters, readers are invited to meet Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens on her own terms, in her own voice—as complementary partner to her world-famous spouse, Mark Twain, and as enduring friend, mother to four children, world traveler, and much more. The frail woman often portrayed by scholars, biographers, and Twain himself.


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Olivia Langdon Clemens, c.1872 ( Image Courtesy of the Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT.) Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain) and Olivia ("Livy") Langdon were married on February 2, 1870, in the Langdon family parlor in Elmira, New York.


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Olivia Susan Clemens‚ called "Susy" by her family‚ was the second child and the oldest of three daughters. Born March 19‚ 1872‚ Susy was a baby when Langdon died‚ and after his death both parents doted on Susy. Their close attachment to her remained significant throughout her youth and young adulthood.


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When Samuel L. Clemens, the 34-year-old bohemian adventurer cum newly best-selling author married, on February 2, 1870, the 24-year-old refined, religious and wealthy Olivia Langdon, it was probably Clemens who woke up the most surprised - and not with his bride either, but himself.