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Bringing down the Colonel

a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington

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Bringing down the Colonel
Patricia Miller
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An edition of Bringing down the Colonel (2018)

Bringing down the Colonel

a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington

First edition.

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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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English
Pages
368

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Subjects
Sex scandals, History, Scandals, United states, history, 1865-1898, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
People
Madeline Pollard (approximately 1866-), William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904)
Places
United States
Times
19th century

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.8092/2
Library of Congress
E664.P75 M55 2018, E664.P75M55 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26976370M
ISBN 10
0374252661
ISBN 13
9780374252663
LCCN
2018016403
OCLC/WorldCat
1050144218

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marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Better World Books record
Promise Item
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Promise Item

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