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On April 14, 1865, the night of President Lincoln’s assassination, Booth’s conspirator Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in his home just blocks from Ford’s Theatre. The attack, which left Seward and his son seriously wounded, is recounted in poignant detail in Fanny Seward’s diary. Fanny, the beloved only daughter of Seward, was a keen observer, and her diary entries from 1858 to 1866 are the foundation of Krisher’s vivid portrait of the young girl who was an eyewitness to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
Fanny offers intimate observations on the politicians, generals, and artists of the time. She tells of attending dinner parties, visiting troops, and going to the theater, often alongside President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary. Through Fanny’s writings, Krisher not only skillfully brings to life the events and activities of a progressive political family but also illuminates the day-to-day drama of the war. Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.
On April 14, 1865, the night of President Lincoln’s assassination, Booth’s conspirator Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in his home just blocks from Ford’s Theatre. The attack, which left Seward and his son seriously wounded, is recounted in poignant detail in Fanny Seward’s diary. Fanny, the beloved only daughter of Seward, was a keen observer, and her diary entries from 1858 to 1866 are the foundation of Krisher’s vivid portrait of the young girl who was an eyewitness to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
Fanny offers intimate observations on the politicians, generals, and artists of the time. She tells of attending dinner parties, visiting troops, and going to the theater, often alongside President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary. Through Fanny’s writings, Krisher not only skillfully brings to life the events and activities of a progressive political family but also illuminates the day-to-day drama of the war. Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.
- Sales Rank: #217340 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.32" h x .96" w x 6.38" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Review
William H. Seward's daughter Fanny came of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. She knew her father's colleagues in Lincoln's cabinet, including the president, and wrote penetrating comments in her diary about events and persons. Trudy Krisher's gripping narrative of Fanny's experiences builds toward its tragic climax in Lincoln's assassination and the vicious attack on Fanny's father right before her eyes, followed by the poignant anticlimax of Fanny's own death from the nineteenth-century curse of tuberculosis. (James M. McPherson, who is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom, the seminal book on the Civil War era. He is also Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University.)
At last Fanny Seward, the precocious, perceptive daughter of Secretary of State William Seward, gets her own book, the book she deserves: warm and literate and engaging. (Walter Stahr, Presidential Fellow, Chapman University)
This well researched account of young Fanny Seward, resident of upstate New York and daughter of Lincoln's right-hand man in Washington DC, brings a human perspective to domestic life in the Civil War period. The poignant story of Fanny from childhood through early adulthood provides rich context to the well-preserved Seward House in Auburn, New York. (Deirdre Stam, Long Island University)
Though little known outside her family & circle of friends, Fanny Seward, daughter of Lincoln's Secretary of State, was witness to some of the most pivotal events and figures of American history during the mid-1800s. Krisher's excellent new book enables this shy young woman to finally step from behind the scenes of history and take center stage. (Jennifer Haines, Seward family historian)
Krisher treats us to a rare glimpse into a spirited and articulate single woman’s interior world, revealing how she navigated the gendered spheres of family, friendships, family, politics, community, and civic engagement with grace, poise, and insight. (Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., author, Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.)
Krisher paints a lively rendering of the youngest child born to Frances and William Henry Seward and into a home of privilege and progressive politics. As a statesman, the world knows of Seward's exploits: successful lawyer, abolitionist, governor of New York, United States senator, unsuccessful campaign challenger of Abraham Lincoln for the 16th presidency, nine-year secretary of state for Presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and purchaser of Alaska. Little is known, however, of "Fanny." With Krisher's latest work, readers can come to see the Civil War and the years leading up to it in a new light when they take in her warm 250-page account of Fanny's perspective on events. (Carrie Chantler The Citizen)
Trudy Krisher has breathed life back into a woman who died much too young….a wonderfully written book of a life bound up in our country’s most traumatic hour. A must read! (Historical Novel Society)
About the Author
Trudy Krisher is a retired professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, Communication, and Social Sciences at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Love One Another
By Nancy A.
When historical fiction writer Trudy Krisher read Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin she became interested in Fanny Seward, the beloved daughter of William Seward who was Lincoln's rival for the Republican presidential candidate. He became his closest friend politically and personally. She also read James Swanson's book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. Learning that Fanny Seward had kept a diary and no biography existed, Krisher began her research that culminated in Fanny Seward: A Life.
Like Krisher I also was captivated by the assassination attempt on William Seward and by the role his daughter Fanny played in his life.
I was disappointed to learn that Krisher's original manuscript reached 600 pages but found no publisher. She had to halve her book. Early on I had wished to hear more of Fanny's voice through incorporation of her diary entries and writing. Happily these source materials do appear later in the book, especially as relating to the assassination attempt on her father's life.
The Seward family was privileged yet unpretentious, progressive and free-thinking. Frances Seward was an intellectual who preferred the introverted and quiet rural life. She was involved in the Underground Railroad. She knew Elizabeth Cady Stanton who described Frances as having "independence of character". Always in frail health Frances used her illnesses to avoid society.
William Seward was outgoing, sanguine, and personable...and "addicted" to politics. Goodwin in Team of Rivals tells how he was the most liberal Abolitionist Republican and assumed he would be nominated for their presidential candidate. He was too liberal, and Lincoln was elected. Seward was offered Secretary of State on Lincoln's Cabinet, and he assumed he would "lead" behind the scenes. Instead Lincoln won Seward's respect and loyalty.
Fanny was plain and conventional, a loving child, an adoring sister. Her family role was that of nurturer. Books were her first love, and writing her second. She wrote plays, poems, and a novel during her short life. Her power of observation and descriptive writing indicates that had she been born in another time perhaps she would have been a journalist.
Her father was publicly conservative about marital happiness, and her mother felt a woman could accomplish more of importance in the world when unmarried. Consequently, Fanny seriously considered writing as a career.
Her parents were often separated, Frances staying in Auburn NY while William lived in Washington D.C. with visits home as he could. Fanny spent a good deal of time with her father and was knowledgeable about all aspects of the Civil War. She visited the camps, the battlefields, and the hospitals. Fanny met national figures, becoming close to Dorothea Dix, superintended of women nurses, and to the renowned actress Charlotte Cushman, an emancipated woman who was also a closeted lesbian.
The biography's climax revolves around the events of April 14, 1865. While John Wilkes Booth and President Lincoln played out their roles in the Ford Theater, embittered Confederate Lewis Powell was lurking outside the Seward home, armed with a gun and a knife. William Seward had suffered massive injuries in a carriage accident, his jaw broken and his arm useless. Fanny had been reading to her father, and had just turned down the light. Seward's nurse Sergeant Robinson was in attendance. Powell was determined to fulfill his role and assassinate the Secretary of State, while a third member of the plot was to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson.
Read the book! I won't give away the story! Except to say that Fanny showed great spirit and selflessness in defending her father, and her actions likely saved his life.
'Blood, blood, my thoughts seemed drenched in it—I seemed to breathe its sickening odor. My dress was stained with it—Mother’s was drabbled with it—it was on everything. The bed had been covered with blood, the blankets & sheet chopped with several blows of the knife.'
Fanny was never in fine health, and tuberculosis brought an early death at age 21. She was not alive when her father died in 1872. His final words were "Love one another."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The author's love for her subject is evident and makes us fall ...
By Nancy Albert
What an interesting book. The author's love for her subject is evident and makes us fall in love with her as well. History lovers will enjoy reading about this sweet, sensitive young lady, who, although virtually unknown to us, was in the center of major historical events. This book is extremely well-researched and truly brings the civil war to life in a personal way.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Growing Up & Aware in the Civil War
By Story Circle Book Reviews
Trudy Krisher acknowledges that her father, who had a passion for the Civil War, prepared her for the task of writing about Fanny Seward. As a child, Krisher visited many Civil War battlefields and monuments with her family. She learned anecdotes and details about generals, their troops, and their battles. But it wasn't until she read Team of Rivals by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin that she began to learn about Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, and his daughter, Fanny (Frances Adeline Seward).
Now better known for his visionary efforts to complete the United States' purchase of the Alaska Territory (which was loudly criticized as "Seward's Folly"), William Seward had run hard against Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860. But when Seward lost the nomination to Lincoln, he campaigned hard on behalf of his former opponent, despite his deep disappointment. For his part, Lincoln recognized in Seward a man of integrity, and his appointment to Lincoln's cabinet proved to be a solid and important choice.
Like Lincoln, Seward was a doting father as well as a canny politician. He had three good sons, but his daughter was the apple of his eye, so he took teenaged Fanny and her friend along when he made a month-long campaign tour on Lincoln's behalf. This was just part of Fanny's remarkable exposure to important people and events, which she carefully noted in the diaries she kept from the age of fourteen until her untimely death just eight years later in 1866.
As Krisher studied the Seward family, she saw that bits of information about Fanny kept "peeping out" of other people's stories. She soon found she had a question that would not let her go. "What was it like to be the daughter of Lincoln's Secretary of State, so close to the anxieties—and dangers—of Civil War America?"
When Krisher read the microfilmed diaries, which have never been published in their entirety, she was captivated by Fanny and began to dig deeper to understand the girl and her experiences. Among those experiences, the most dramatic is surely Fanny's presence at the assassination attempt on her father, which was part of the plot that dealt Lincoln a fatal wound in Ford's Theater. But there is much more, including friendships with the Underground Railroad's Harriet Tubman and the humanitarian and activist Dorothea Dix. Fanny was well acquainted with the Union players in the unfolding drama of the Civil War, and as she grew into a young woman, developed a remarkably personal connection with many of them.
Fanny Seward camped on battlefields and worked in military hospitals. She saw terrible suffering and great heroism, and did her part to help. Yet she was a shy, sensitive, and awkward girl who rather slowly developed a more sophisticated understanding of the world around her. She was also a girl who loved to read and write, and though it would have been quite unusual in her time, Krisher believes that if she had lived she might well have gone on to a writing career. Certainly her diaries provide significant information, and though more of her writings might have been included in this biography, the quotations do give us hints of her intelligence, wit, and devotion to her family.
In telling Fanny's story, Trudy Krisher reveals the growth of a young American woman and puts it into a fascinating personal and historical context. The style reflects her experience as an author for young adults, yet she has created an engaging work for any reader interested in a fresh view of dramatic events in our national history. Fannie Seward: A Life deserves to be widely read, and Fanny Seward deserves to be remembered.
by Susan Schoch
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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