Abraham Lincoln : his life and public services

Written within months of the assassination, this popular life of Lincoln sold in the tens of thousands — and its author, Phebe Hanaford, went on to become the first woman ordained to the ministry in New England (Universalist, 1868), preaching, among much else, the funeral sermons of colleagues male ministers would not bury. The book that made her name, from the year that made her subject immortal.

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