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037 $bIndependent Pub Group, 814 N Franklin st, Chicago, IL, USA, 60610, (312)3370747$nSAN 201-2936
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100 1 $aOppenheimer, Margaret A.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe remarkable rise of Eliza Jumel :$ba story of marriage and money in the early republic /$cMargaret A. Oppenheimer.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aChicago, Illinois :$bChicago Review Press,$c[2016]
300 $axi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliogrpahical references and index.
520 $a"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion and Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from her first husband--a French merchant--and almost lost it to her second--notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, a titanic battle over her estate went all the way to the United States Supreme Court--twice. Family members told of a woman who earned the gratitude of Napoleon I and shone at the courts of Louis XVIII and Charles X. Claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, a wife who defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. Eliza Jumel's real story--so unique that it surpasses any invention--has yet to be told, until now. "--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aJumel, Eliza Bowen,$d1775?-1865.
600 10 $aJumel, Stephen,$d1755-1832.
600 10 $aBurr, Aaron,$d1756-1836.
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651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory$y1775-1865$vBiography.
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