The courtship of Eva Eldridge
Subtitle: a story of bigamy in the marriage-mad fifties
By: Diane Simmons
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609384623; 9781609384616
Subjects: Bigamy; Case studies; Single women; Social conditions; Marriage; History; Bigamie; Études de cas; Femmes seules; Conditions sociales; Mariage; Histoire; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture; HISTORY; General
Description: Simmons presents readers with a true story of one woman's struggle with a bigamist husband in the 1950s. Through the use of an archive of roughly eight hundred of Eva Eldridge's letters and personal papers, the author tells the story of a woman bent on tracking down the serial bigamist who had married her only to disappear, as he had on a string of several women in the years following World War II. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; March 1958, Boise, Idaho; Spring 1940, Wing Valley, Oregon; Summer 1956, Boise; 1940-1942, Wing Valley; 1942, "If the Fair Sex Were to Replace Men"; 1942-1943, War in Europe; 1943, "One Woman Can Shorten This War"; Winter 1956, Vick Hits Boise; 1943, Shipbuilding Boomtown, Portland; Spring 1957, Engaged, Wing Valley; 1944, Swan Island, Portland; 1957, A Wedding, Boise; 1944-1946, Swan Island Shipyard and Fort George Wright Convalescent Hospital; Spring 1958, Farewell Bend, Oregon; 1944, "The Taste of Independence," Swan Island.; title: 1957, Honeymoon, Nevada and California1945, Sunday Punch; 1946, Waiting for a Wedding, Wing Valley; Part 2; Odette, March 1959; Joining the Search; Odette and Leisa; Marie and Susan, Modesto; Tessa, Baltimore; Why?; Vick's War, 1940-1951; The Vickers Family, Kansas, 1910-1930; Portland, 1960-1961; Mena and Janice, 1961; The Bigamist, 1953-1962; King County Jail, Seattle, 1962; Sanity; Eva and Vick in Seattle, Spring 1962; "Ha! Ha! I Just Laugh and Tell Everyone a Different Story," Seattle, Summer 1962; Psychoanalyzing Vick; Wing Valley, August 1962; To Follow the Heart, 1943-2002; Epilogue.