A Lifetime with Mark Twain : The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant

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A Lifetime with Mark Twain : The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant

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The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant

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Katy Leary

Language

eng

Summary

This book, which was first published in 1925, is a transcription of an informal account by Katy Leary of her thirty years service to the household of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), the 19th century American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, who became world-famous for novels such as Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). It was Mark Twain who suggested that the faithful Katy tell the world all she knew about him. Her reminiscences were locked away in her memory until Miss Mary Lawton, who had known Mr. and Mrs. Clemens for many years, persuaded Katy to reveal them. Katy Leary began to talk and, pencil in hand, Miss Lawton recorded while the old servant poured forth the inimitable words in which she related many a chapter as yet unknown to those outside the family circle. A fascinating read

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CtWfDGI

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813/

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no index present

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HB151

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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adult

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