Representations in Culture
- The 2007 novel Mrs Keckley Sends Her Regards by Tim Jorgenson portrays Keckley's intimate friendship with both of the Lincolns.
- Keckley is portrayed by Gloria Reuben in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012) and featured as close to Mary Todd Lincoln.
- Jennifer Chiaverini’s novel, Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker (2013), features Mrs. Keckley.
- A play, Mary T. & Lizzy K., by Tazewell Thompson, opens in March 2013 at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC.
- Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, which opened at the New York Theater Workshop in December 2012, included Keckely as a character.
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