Bringing down the Colonel
Subtitle: a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington
By: Patricia Miller
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780374252663
Subjects: Sex scandals; History; Scandals
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gold to be made; title: A bright and brainy woman; title: A bastard catch'd; title: The left-hand road; title: The Wanton widow; title: Not so easily handled; title: What shall we do with our daughters?; title: For the likes of me; title: The needle, the school room, and the store; title: A house of mercy; title: Miss Pollard's ruin in Lexington; title: Somebody's daughter; title: A man of passion; title: Hindered, not ruined; title: The front parlor and the back gate; title: The cavalier and the puritans; title: Refusing to behave; title: Redemption.