Creator
Mark Twain
Title
A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
James R. Osgood
Date
1877
Description
Twain’s “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It” tells the story of “Aunt Rachel,” is based on incidents in the life of Mary Ann Cord ("Auntie Rachel"), a formerly enslaved woman who worked as a cook for Twain's sister-in-law at Quarry Farm in Elmira.
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