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Author:

Miller, Patricia, 1964- author.

Title:

Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington / Patricia Miller.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Sarah Crichton BooksFarrar, Straus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Pollard, Madeline,--1863-1945.
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston,--1837-1904.
Sex scandals--United States--History--19th century.
Scandals--United States--History--19th century.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374252661
9780374252663

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1050144218

LCCN:

2018016403

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