title: Notorious Eliza
author: Beyea, Basil
description: SHE LIVED A NEVER-ENDING QUEST FOR FAME AND WEALTH...
  
  It wasn't easy for Betsy Bowen to leave her past behind.  The daughter of a whore, she had taken to the streets herself to earn money in Providence.
  
  Abandoning her own illegitimate son, she came to New York...and Betsy Bowen became Eliza Capet.  She dazzled all the men she met with her golden hair and violet eyes.  But the driving force throughout her life was her obsession with one man - a man who changed the face of America in an infamous fight for survival.