Literature



Literature

Mark Twain was born into a family formerly settled in the Americas whose trajectory married designed by the frontier settlers.His mother, Jane Lampton, was born in Kentucky in a family that is likely part of the first generations of pioneers to family legend that lends a distant ancestry with the Lambton, Dukes of Durham.

The paternal branch of the family is originally from South of the country. His grandfather, a farmer in Virginia, migrated to Kentucky in the early nineteenth century in order to become collector (commissioner of revenue) . Twain's father, Charles Clemens, studied law in east and ...