Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

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First printing, January 2013

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Copyright © 2013 by Jennifer Chiaverini

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker : a novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-101-60964-4

1. Keckley, Elizabeth, ca. 1818–1907–Fiction. 2. Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818–1882–Fiction.
3. Women dressmakers–Fiction. 4. Female friendship–Fiction. 5. First ladies–Fiction.
6. Historical fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.H473M77 2013

813’.54–dc23               2012036366

Printed in the United States of America

Set in ITC New Baskerville   
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.