An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Behind the Scenes is both modern and readable.
Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is an autobiographical narrative by Elizabeth Keckley. In it she tells the story of her life as a slave and her time as a seamstress for Mrs.
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Recommended." -Library Journal Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War.
Originally published in 1868when it was attacked as an indecent book authored by a traitorous eavesdropper"Behind the Scenes" is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency ...
Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who was born a slave, but eventually became the dress designer for Mary Todd Lincoln.
This book, out of print for many decades but again available, tells the personal side of living and working in Washington, but also the struggles of a black woman, both as slave and as free woman, in the turbulent times of the Civil War
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Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley. PREFACE. I have often been asked to write my life, as those who know me know that it has been an eventful one. At last I have acceded to the importunities of ...
Maybe what they need most is somebody who can see beyond the shallow first impressions - just one person they can allow to see behind the scenes of who they are. Maybe they have more in common than it seems.
Shortly thereafter, we moved from Brooklyn Heights to Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville and its 95% Jewish neighborhood, where our apartment mingled among Kosher restaurants, like Rothman's with their chewie bagels and bialys, a butcher, ...
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As he headed away from her, he thought about what she'd meant by what she told Matt when he'd caught them coming out of the woods—whether she was determined to put their past behind them and force him to move on with finding a wife.
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I did several seasons at the Playhouse for him, with great friends like James Cairncross. He was a brilliant director and I once said, 'If Frank asked me to step in front of a bus, I'd do it.' Newcomer in Four in the Morning.
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.