Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.
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14 Facts About Olivia Langdon
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Olivia Langdon was born in 1845 in Elmira, New York, to Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon.
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Olivia Langdon, called Livy, was educated by a combination of home tutoring and classes at Thurston's Female Seminary and Elmira Female College.
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Olivia Langdon's was an invalid for part of her teenage years, and she suffered from what was probably tuberculosis myelitis or Pott's disease.
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Olivia Langdon's continued to have health problems throughout her life.
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Olivia Langdon met Samuel Clemens in December 1867, through her brother Charles.
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Olivia Langdon's rejected his first proposal of marriage, but they became engaged two months later, in November 1868.
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Olivia Langdon was given "preferred creditor" status, and all Samuel's copyrights were assigned to her.
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Olivia Langdon helped her husband with the editing of his books, articles, and lectures.
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Olivia Langdon's was a "faithful, judicious, and painstaking editor", Clemens wrote.
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Olivia Langdon's continued to help her husband to edit works up until a few months before her death.
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Olivia Langdon was a proponent of women's rights, and surrounded herself with influential women including Julia Beecher and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
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Olivia Langdon's health began worsening and, advised to keep a distance from her husband in order to keep from getting overexcited, went months without seeing him.
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Olivia Langdon's was cremated, and her ashes are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.
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