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Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington Cover Image Book Book

Bringing down the Colonel : a sex scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "powerless" woman who took on Washington

Miller, Patricia 1964- (author.).

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780374252663
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Pollard, Madeline -- approximately 1866-
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston -- 1837-1904
Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century

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Castlegar Public Library 973.80922 MIL (Text) 35146002117489 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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