THE SENATOR'S LADY

by Shirley Seifert ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 27, 1967

Here is one of Shirley Seifert's wifely versions of great men (Three Lives of Elizabeth: Let My Name Stand Fair; etc.) and this time she visits with Stephen and Addie Douglas, during the five years of their marriage before he died of typhoid fever. He was forty, she was twenty and ""as lovely as a pearl"" when they met in the Capital and the cherry blossoms turned to orange. Douglas at this time, defending his concept of popular sovereignty, was dogged by the troubles in Kansas, eventually forced to take a courageous defiant stand against the President, ultimately engaged in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. As for Addie, she too was tried during these first and few years--lost one baby through a miscarriage and the second she finally brought to term before the fever almost took her life. Since there is very little known about Miss Addie (she was the niece of Dolly Madison), Miss Seifert cannot be faulted for the fact that she is never much more than a pretty girl who loved camellias. All glo-coated with sentiment and stippled with endearments for a residual readership of this genre.

Pub Date: July 27, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION