Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief - The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani
One of those characters was Anne Rutledge, rumored to have been Lincoln’s first love, and whose untimely death — reportedly of typhoid at the age of 22 — was said to be a source of his often melancholy outlook on the world.
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