Mark Twain's Life and Family

A Photo Biography

 

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 1835-1853
Old Times on the Mississippi 1857-1860
Roughing It 1860-1864
"The Trouble Starts at Eight" Mark Twain's National and International Tours and Speeches  1865-1866
The Gilded Age 1869-1871
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1872-1891
A Tramp Abroad 1891-1901
Mysterious Stranger 1901-1908

Mark Twain with his Wife, Olivia, and his daughters

 

Mark Twain at home with his family

 

His daughters Clara, Susie and Margaret

Mark Twain and his family all loved literature and performance and theater.  The entire family would spend afternoons acting out Shakespeare and other plays and stories.

Clara and her friend Sarah performing the Prince and the Pauper

 

Mark Twain and Olivia acting out Hero and Leander's speech in Much Ado About Nothing

Mark Twain spent much of his life in Hartford, Connecticut and his boyhood in Hannibal, but he also traveled to England for a period of time and France.

France

"France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."  Mark Twain
 

 

Hartford, CT

 

Dolis Hill, England

 

Hannibal, MO 
This is his boyhood home

 

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