The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic
Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Seizing opportunities and readjusting facts to achieve the security and status she so desperately craved, she obtained a fortune from her first husband, a French merchant, and nearly lost it to her second, the notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr promptly amid lurid charges of adultery, she lived on triumphantly to the age of ninety, astutely managing her property and public persona. By the end of her life, Madame Jumel was one of New Y…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61373-380-6
- EAN: 9781613733806
- Produktnummer: 18027371
- Verlag: Chicago Review Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.9 cm 721 g
- Gewicht: 721
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