num_pages: 329
description: The author revists the eighteenth-century "Jezebel of Virginia" case to recreate one of the most sensational trials in American history in which Nancy Randolph, a young woman from one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families in Virginia, played a key role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused of fathering and killing an illegitimate child. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of 18th Century America
titlecomplete: Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of 18th Century America
genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Womens, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Crime, History, Historical, 18th Century
ratings_count: 380
publisher: Simon & Schuster