Nan Britton

**Nanna Popham Britton** (9 ga Nuwamba, 1896 - 21 ga Maris, 1991) mace ce 'yar Amurka wadda ta shahara a matsayin uwargidan Warren G. Harding, Shugaban Amurka na 29. A shekarar 1927, Britton ta bayyana cewa 'yarta, Elizabeth, Harding ne ya haifi 'yarta yayin da yake aiki a Majalisar Dattawan Amurka, shekara guda kafin a zabe shi a matsayin shugaban kasa. Da'awar Britton a bude take a gare ta a rayuwarta, amma a shekarar 2015, an tabbatar da ubancin Harding ta hanyar gwajin DNA. 

## Alaƙa da Harding
Iyalan Harding da Britton duk suna zaune ne a Marion, Ohio . Ƙanwar Harding, Abigail, malamar Turanci ce ta makarantar sakandare ta Britton. Britton tana cikin ƙuruciyarta lokacin da ta fara son Harding, wanda nan da nan ya zama abin sha'awa. Mahaifin Nan, likita Samuel H. Britton, ya yi magana da Harding game da sha'awar 'yarsa matashiya, kuma Harding ya haɗu da ita, yana gaya mata cewa wata rana za ta sami mutumin da take mafarkin sa. Harding ya auri matarsa Florence a shekarar 1891 kuma ya shiga cikin doguwar soyayya da Carrie Fulton Phillips, matar James Phillips, mai shagon Marion. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantar sakandare a shekarar 1914, Britton ta koma birnin New York, don fara aiki a matsayin sakatare. Ta yi iƙirarin cewa ta fara dangantaka ta kud da kud da Harding a wannan lokacin.

Bayan mutuwar Shugaba Harding ba zato ba tsammani a watan Agusta na 1923, Britton ya rubuta abin da ake la'akari da shi  ta zama littafin sumba da faɗa na farko . A cikin littafin *The President's Daughter*, wanda aka buga a 1927, ta ba da labarin rayuwarta a matsayin uwargidan Harding a tsawon lokacin shugabancinsa kuma ta ba shi suna a matsayin uban 'yarta, Elizabeth Ann (1919–2005). Wani sanannen nassi ya ba da labarin yin jima'i a cikin kabad kusa da ofishin Shugaban ƙasa a Fadar White House. 

A cewar Britton, Harding ya yi alƙawarin tallafa wa 'yarsu, amma bayan mutuwarsa, matarsa ta ƙi cika wannan alƙawarin. Britton ta yanke shawarar rubuta littafi mai cikakken bayani don samun kuɗi don tallafa wa 'yarta da kuma kare haƙƙin yara marasa aure.  Ta gabatar da ƙara ( *Britton v. Klunk* ), amma ba ta iya bayar da wata hujja ba kuma ta girgiza da mummunan harin da ɗan majalisa Grant Mouser ya kai mata a lokacin jarrabawar gwaji, wanda hakan ya jawo mata asarar shari'ar. 

Bayanin Britton game da Harding da kalmominsa na magana ya nuna hoton wata mai son mata. A cikin littafinsa na 1931 *Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s*, Frederick Lewis Allen ya rubuta cewa bisa ga shaidar littafin Britton, rayuwar sirrin Harding "ɗaya ce daga cikin shirye-shiryen jima'i masu arha" kuma "mutum yana ganin ainihin al'adar mutumin, da kuma yadda yake ji game da 'Gee dearie' da 'Say, you dear'." Littafin Britton yana cikin waɗanda Dorothy Parker ta yi wa mujallar *The New Yorker* bita ba tare da girmamawa ba a matsayin wani ɓangare na sanannen shafinta *na Constant Reader*, ƙarƙashin taken "An American DuBarry ".

A shekarar 1964, gano fiye da wasiƙun soyayya 250 da Harding ya rubuta wa Carrie Fulton Phillips tsakanin 1909 da 1920 ya ƙara tabbatar da ikirarin Britton. A wancan lokacin, Britton tana zaune a keɓe a Illinois; ɗan jarida RW Apple Jr. ne ya same ta amma ta ƙi yin hira da shi. Ko a wannan lokacin, bayan wani ƙarni, 'yarta da jikokinta za su "zama cikin tarko daga masu shakkar ƙiyayya" tare da barazana da wasu kulawa da ba a so waɗanda suka yi kama da suna ƙaruwa a lokacin zaɓen shugaban ƙasa.

A shekarun 1980, Britton da danginta sun ƙaura zuwa Oregon, inda jikokinta uku ke zaune har zuwa shekarar 2015. Britton ta mutu a shekarar 1991 a Sandy, Oregon, inda ta zauna a shekarun ƙarshe na rayuwarta. Har zuwa mutuwarta ta dage cewa Harding shine mahaifin Elizabeth. A shekarar 2015, shekaru 24 bayan mutuwar Britton (da kuma shekaru 10 bayan ta Elizabeth), Ancestry.com ta tabbatar ta hanyar gwajin DNA na zuriyar ɗan'uwan Harding da jikokin Britton cewa Elizabeth 'yar Harding ce babu shakka.   

## A cikin al'adun jama'a
Virginia Kull ta fito a matsayin jarumar Nan Britton a kakar wasa ta farko ta fim ɗin *Boardwalk Empire* na HBO . 

Marubucin Amurka Robert Plunket ya rubuta wani sabon salo na rayuwar shugaban ƙasa Hardings da al'amuransa a cikin littafin *"My Search for Warren Harding"* na shekarar 1983. 

## Manazarta

## Majiyoyi gabaɗaya

* Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. *Florence Harding*, William Morrow and Co., Birnin New York, 1998, 
* Britton, Nan. ** . Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., Birnin New York, 1927 (an sake buga shi a 1973),  .
* Dean, John; Schlesinger, Arthur M. *Warren Harding*, Jerin Shugaban Amurka, Times Books, 2004, 
* Ferrell, Robert H. *Mutuwar Shugaba Harding Mai Ban Mamaki*, Jami'ar Missouri Press, 1996, 
* Mee, Charles Jr. *Ƙungiyar 'Yan Tawayen Ohio: Duniyar Warren G. Harding: Nishaɗin Tarihi*, M. Evans & Company, 1983, 

## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

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* Works by or about Nan Britton at Wikisource
* Letter documenting how Warren G. Harding tried to help Nan Britton land a job Shapell Manuscript Foundation
* Nan Britton at Find a Grave
* Works by Nan Britton at Project Gutenberg