Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington /
Madeline Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand, then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. Pollard sued Breckinridge for breach of promise in a sho...
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.