Eliza Lynch
Subtitle: Queen of Paraguay
By: Michael Lillis, & Ronan Fanning
Contributors: Fanning, Ronan, 1941- author
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan; M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780717162796; 9780717162468
Subjects: Mistresses; Biography; Paraguayan War, 1865-1870; History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical; HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Description: 'Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay' is the story of the most infamous woman in South America, the Cork-born beauty and lover of the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Praise for Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay; Dedication; Contents; Foreword to the Second Edition; Prologue; Chapter 1: The Hunt for Eliza Lynch; Chapter 2: Monsieur Quatrefages and Mrs Quatrefages; Chapter 3: Was she a Courtesan?; Chapter 4: Enter Panchito; Chapter 5: Paraguay-Mohammed's Paradise; Chapter 6: The Queen of Paraguay; Chapter 7: Triumph; Chapter 8: Disaster; Chapter 9: Inferno; Chapter 10: Cerro Corá; Chapter 11: In the Edinburgh Courts; Chapter 12: The Last Betrayal: Return to Asunción; Chapter 13: 'A Heart Grown Cold'; title: Appendix: Elisa Lynch, Expocisión y ProtestaAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Reference Notes; Select Bibliography; List of Maps; Copyright; About the Authors; About Gill & Macmillan.