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Miller, Patricia, 1964- author.
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Pollard, Madeline, 1863-1945.
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904.
Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Bringing down the Co...
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Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington / Patricia Miller.
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Miller, Patricia, 1964- author.
New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Subjects
Pollard, Madeline, 1863-1945.
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904.
Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780374252663 (hardcover) :
0374252661 (hardcover)
Description:
368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First edition.
Contents:
Gold to be made -- A bright and brainy woman -- A bastard catch'd -- The left-hand road -- The Wanton widow -- Not so easily handled -- What shall we do with our daughters? -- For the likes of me -- The needle, the school room, and the store -- A house of mercy -- Miss Pollard's ruin in Lexington -- Somebody's daughter -- A man of passion -- Hindered, not ruined -- The front parlor and the back gate -- The cavalier and the puritans -- Refusing to behave -- Redemption.
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"The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
973.80922 Mi
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Kaimuki Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
973.80922 Mi
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