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“Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“vivid descriptions of the grim sights and sounds and smells”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“Her greatest legacy could not be measured in garments or in words, but in the wisdom she had imparted, in the lives made better…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“The union of their shared lives could be a masterpiece, even if the colors of one piece clashed with another, even if uneven stitches…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“Upon reflection, Henry found it difficult to disagree with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and frequent critic of the Lincoln administration,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while…

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Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“of her husband’s cabinet, who had their own ideas for the president’s social calendar. The worst conflict, and the most upsetting for Mrs. Lincoln,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“It’s painful to be the one not chosen,” she murmured to Father Ryan, watching the younger pair. “Even when you acknowledge, deep down, that…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in…

— Jennifer Chiaverini