After what Mary Todd Lincolon endured in her lifetime, how could she not have gone mad. This book opens the pages of Mary Todd Lincoln's journal, written while she was institutionalized in an insane asylum, put there by her only living son. Mrs. Lincoln tells her story, writing as passionately as she lived. It's fiction, of course, but Newman based it firmly on the biography of Mary Todd Lincoln by Jean Baker and one has no trouble believing it could be true. A good read and a perfect companion to Baker's biography.

This book was so interesting and engrossing. Mary lived a life of privilage until marrying Abe Lincoln. She faced troubles that would have been easily dealt with today.

I think this book will bring much discussion to a book club. You really feel for the character, Mary Todd Lincoln. She is a woman ahead of her time who had to deal with great loss in her lifetime. Grief is a heavy burden to carry alone. I am happy to know Mary's story as told by Janis Cooke Newman.

You must submit a good three days of solid reading to get the book done. I think the author really loves Mary and tries to portray that in her writing.

The book was longer than needed. I tended to get lost in the authors description of events. Protrait of Lincoln was greatly different than anything I knew of him.

I really, really, really enjoyed reading this book - so much that about halfway through I purchased a copy of Mary by Janis Cooke Newman (a biography of Mary Lincoln which was the primary source for Mary Mrs. A. Lincoln - and I then read the books in parallel so that I could separate fact from fiction.